China Makes a Big Play In Silicon Valley (npr.org) 72
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: The Chinese government has been forming global partnerships with Western think tanks, recruiting key talent at networking events sponsored by the Chinese government and working with U.S. universities, says Michael Brown, managing director of the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit in Mountain View, Calif. The unit was set up in 2015 to help the U.S. military capitalize on emerging commercial technologies. And, he notes, there is serious concern in Washington that China could acquire too much sensitive U.S. technology and transfer it back home.
Adam Lysenko, a senior analyst at Rhodium Group, an economic research firm, says American entities represent the largest venture capital investment in startup technology companies, but Chinese investment accounts for about 15 percent of the deals. In the past eight years, there were more than 1,300 rounds of funding for U.S. startups with at least one Chinese investor, Lysenko says, totaling about $11 billion of Chinese investment. After a record 2017, Rhodium Group predicts 2018 will be another record year for Chinese venture capital into U.S. startups. Lysenko says this has become a concern in national security circles because the nature of emerging technology is inherently dual-use: The artificial intelligence algorithms that help speed up your smartphone could also be applied to weapons on the battlefield. China's quest for innovation and know-how can best be illustrated by the offices of Baidu -- China's largest internet provider and Google's rival -- which is located right next to a Google complex. "Baidu opened its innovation center, called the Institute of Deep Learning, four years ago, with a focus on a self-driving vehicle called Apollo," reports NPR. "Other Chinese tech powerhouses -- Alibaba, Tencent and Huawei -- also have Silicon Valley research and development centers. Instead of buying an existing U.S. business, these Chinese tech giants come to the U.S. and build new companies from the ground up, in what's known as 'greenfield' investments. [T]hese Chinese tech companies hire away a lot of U.S. employees who might otherwise work for American businesses."
Adam Lysenko, a senior analyst at Rhodium Group, an economic research firm, says American entities represent the largest venture capital investment in startup technology companies, but Chinese investment accounts for about 15 percent of the deals. In the past eight years, there were more than 1,300 rounds of funding for U.S. startups with at least one Chinese investor, Lysenko says, totaling about $11 billion of Chinese investment. After a record 2017, Rhodium Group predicts 2018 will be another record year for Chinese venture capital into U.S. startups. Lysenko says this has become a concern in national security circles because the nature of emerging technology is inherently dual-use: The artificial intelligence algorithms that help speed up your smartphone could also be applied to weapons on the battlefield. China's quest for innovation and know-how can best be illustrated by the offices of Baidu -- China's largest internet provider and Google's rival -- which is located right next to a Google complex. "Baidu opened its innovation center, called the Institute of Deep Learning, four years ago, with a focus on a self-driving vehicle called Apollo," reports NPR. "Other Chinese tech powerhouses -- Alibaba, Tencent and Huawei -- also have Silicon Valley research and development centers. Instead of buying an existing U.S. business, these Chinese tech giants come to the U.S. and build new companies from the ground up, in what's known as 'greenfield' investments. [T]hese Chinese tech companies hire away a lot of U.S. employees who might otherwise work for American businesses."
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This whole article is a riot, if you read it with the substitutions of India for USA and The US for China.
Instead of buying an existing Indian business, these American tech giants come to India and build new companies from the ground up, in what's known as 'greenfield' investments. [T]hese U.S. tech companies hire away a lot of India's employees who might otherwise work for Indian businesses."
What's good for the bloody goose is bloody well good for the gander.
Re: Chinarussia Alliance (Score:2)
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India has talent. Hence the hiring.
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In addition, more of the real talent in India tends to leave there and move to the west.
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No, it's just that when "one asshole nation" does it, it's kind of funny when they start to complain because someone else is doing it to them.
Though maybe sad describes it better than funny.
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Trump Says STOP! (Score:1)
Look unless your say yes to my trade deal you will be kicked out!
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Like NAFTA? Cancels Nafta, renames it, announce a new agreement which is NAFTA with some changes which favor Mexico....
Or like ZTE?: "@realDonaldTrump, President Xi of China, and I, are working together to give massive Chinese phone company, ZTE, a way to get back into business, fast. Too many jobs in China lost. Commerce Department has been instructed to get it done! 8:01 AM - 13 May 2018 "
Or like Kavanaugh, who said its ok for foreign governments to fund election campaigns as long as they don't target in
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Hahahahaha, Trump. Am I right?
Next up, Ajit Pie-Pie. I believe I got negative karma due to my remarks, but I believe that my predictions are proving accurate.
They'll get more than tech (Score:2)
If China come after American tech, especially from Silicon Valley, they'll end up with a lot more. They'll end up contaminating their society with capitalistic ideals as well as ideas. They'll import American consumerism, fashion, and a large part of culture as well. This could be a very risky proposition, even though they are trending towards Western values mixed with Communism already, this will increase the shift. I bet there are more than a few old hard-liners that see this as a bad thing.
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That horse is out of the barn and into the next county already. And China has a very good harness on it. (Back in my day, we had horse analogies)
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Where the hell have you been the past 30 years? Deng Xiaoping's reforms already did all of that. China has long ago abandoned the ideas of Chairman Mao.
From their graves, I guess. Most of the hardliners from the revolution are dead.
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Where the hell have you been the past 30 years
It makes perfect sense if you read the poster's name.
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Makes it hard for the CIA and MI6 to make an offer about spying when returning to China.
Generations got educated in the West and China kept its own secrets.
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Communist nations only allow the most loyal to get a passport and enjoy a free education in the USA.
Over a hundred million Chinese have passports, and there are almost no restrictions on Chinese citizens traveling abroad.
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That is a restriction imposed by the host country, not by China.
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Tell that to Meng Hongwei
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Generations got educated in the West and China kept its own secrets.
Currently, the value of non-resident tuition is a nice round figure of 100 Billion, of which approximately 60% is shared equally between the US and Britain (Britain got on the train first), followed by Canada, Australia, and Europe. Singapore does alright, too.
In the US, this is one way Trustees' have outpaced inflation for the last twenty years, effectively depriving its lower-middle class of an academic experience while simultaneously reducing tenure, diminishing social sciences for STEM related industri
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They'll import American consumerism, fashion, and a large part of culture as well.
Have you ever been to China? Go to Shanghai, and walk down Nanjing Lu.
The main difference between American consumerism and Chinese consumerism is that in China the malls are ten stories tall.
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If China come after American tech, especially from Silicon Valley, they'll end up with a lot more. They'll end up contaminating their society with capitalistic ideals as well as ideas. They'll import American consumerism, fashion, and a large part of culture as well. This could be a very risky proposition, even though they are trending towards Western values mixed with Communism already, this will increase the shift. I bet there are more than a few old hard-liners that see this as a bad thing.
Just like Russia!
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If China come after American tech, especially from Silicon Valley, they'll end up with a lot more. They'll end up contaminating their society with capitalistic ideals as well as ideas.
Yeah, er ... I'm not sure that's as much of a risk from California techies as you might think ...
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China has already gone pretty much capitalist as far as allowing private corporations and profit making. Going further down this route won't necessarily change the Chinese government, and it doesn't mean "society" there becomes capitalist. An economic policy does not change all aspects of society.
As for the Chinese government, they really don't have a strong centralized control over the country as is often portrayed. More power seems to be regional and that's where a lot of government corruption comes in.
Good journalism because (Score:2)
Yet the article addressed what mechanisms are already in place to address a potential, criminal abuse. I term Brown as facile because what organized culture on earth has not recognized technology as crucial? Especially a
Re:Good journalism because (Score:4, Informative)
Speaking to the US here more than China that has never conducted a foreign war
Never conducted a foreign war?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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As the maxim goes... (Score:3)
...the U.S. innovates while China steals.
Dateline CHINA: Interpol Chief Disappeared! (Score:5, Interesting)
Evidently I am one of many in North America who was unaware of the status of the Interpol chief, incorrectly assuming when I heard his name that he was a Chinese-European --- and appalled to learn he was a Chinese national and member of the Chinese Communist Party who had been number man at their intelligence organization, the Ministry of Public Security!
Holy Mother of God !!!!!
And there are still fools --- and minions of the oligarchy --- who question and criticize Brexit!
The devil with those jackals!
The government of China is a vile, despicable totalitarian capitalist state full of corruption of the princelings, the spawn of the founders of the Communist Party in that country and it is obvious that the Interpol chief, Meng, was with the competitor political faction to Xi Jinping's political gang --- Xi Jinping being China's self-appointed emperor. (Jinping's daddy was the author of the original Chinese constitution which Xi amended.)
This is a most blatant and public insult from China to the EU --- suggestive of China's bellicose and warlike stance against the democracies of the world!
Let us not forget the many recent disappearances performed by China: against pro-democracy academic critics, journalists, and the wholesale disappearance of most --- if not all --- of China's human rights attorneys of several years ago!
In America, those jackals of the Business Roundtable, National Association of Manufacturers, Cato Institute, American Enterprise Institute and too many other viper nests, assured us that if all the jobs, technology and investment were offshored to China they would have long since morphed into a democracy by now.
So much for the feckless self-serving assertions of jackals!
With China's program of "soft" intelligence penetration by way of their Confucius Institutes (from a decidedly anti-Confucius government) coupled with their Trojan horse of foreign property acquisition through debt warfare (their One Belt One Road (One Ruler) Initiative) --- and their militarization of artificial islands in the seas of the Pacific, especially the South China Sea, of which two-thirds of the oil shipments traverse --- their global martial strategy is evident.
Add to that their insidious implementation of an ultra-Orwellian control system: their Social Credit System, to further subvert any possibility of human rights in China and the future is obvious and cannot be disputed! Supporters of China's government spew nothing more than red dragon droppings: giant piles of crap! Suggested reading:
https://www.nchrd.org/2018/07/... [nchrd.org]
https://www.nchrd.org/2018/07/... [nchrd.org]
https://www.scmp.com/video/chi... [scmp.com]
https://www.rfa.org/english/ne... [rfa.org]
https://www.theguardian.com/wo... [theguardian.com]
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018... [foreignpolicy.com]
https://www.hrichina.org/en/pr... [hrichina.org]
https://qz.com/1129837/human-r... [qz.com]
https:/ [chinachange.org]
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Would you mind giving a link, where Cato Institute was suggesting this? Please?
Lots of people (Score:2)
China is a big country with roughly 3 times the population of the USA. It makes sense Chinese companies would be involved in the tech industry.
The tricky part is the distinction between a private company and a gov't-influenced/controlled organization there is fuzzy and difficult to ascertain.
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Actually, it is very easy to ascertain: there no distinction. Every Chinese abroad, who still has relatives in China, is subject to blackmail [businessinsider.com]. And many — though not all, of course — are willing to help their government [theepochtimes.com] voluntarily.
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This. I get my haircut at a place down the street, cheap place run by Chinese immigrants, been going there for years. Employees hardly talked to me, but I didn't care since I just wanted a haircut.
When I last changed my job, I played a little trick- I'd been reading about this spying. Told them I was working out at Edwards AFB in the network security. It's near my job now.
Suddenly, they started trying to "introduce" me to women they knew, and being ever so nice.
It was seriously odd. It only stopped once I
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Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of inauguration crowds.
Steal technology and sabotage (Score:3)
The Chinese tech is a few generations away from the artificial intelligence capable of controlling weapon-systems. So, while some arms of their government are busy trying to steal [inkstonenews.com] as much know-how as possible to replicate it, other arms — through paying "thinktanks", "community outreach", and infiltrating government [washingtonpost.com] — are planting the idea, that "AI is unethical" — both, in general and particularly in military applications.
And Silicon Valley's "best" are falling for it [slashdot.org]...