Posted on 03/27/2018 7:48:41 AM PDT by GoldenState_Rose
An executive for a French defense giant that operates in China said that safeguarding the company's technology is important, but the effort is no barrier to his firm's success there.
"The new rule of success is to co-develop in China," he said. "It's to generate technology from China together with Chinese partners. In that case, we don't talk about transfer of technology — we talk about building value in China, for China and also for the group."
"When you follow this kind of approach, good partners, localization of technologies, I think you can get all the benefits of being there," he said.
Thales makes everything from warship electronics and unmanned aerial vehicles to satellite communications equipment and radar technology. It has operated in China for more than 30 years.
New concerns about technology transfer:
President Donald Trump signed an executive memorandum last week that would impose retaliatory tariffs on up to $60 billion in Chinese imports.
The new measures are designed to penalize China for doing things like requiring U.S. companies to hand over technological know-how if they want to do business in China.
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“India is a challenge because:
1) They think they speak English so they don’t try to be understandable”
LOL! I have to agree with you on this one. I still remeber hosting emergency production support calls at 3:00 AM trying to get information out of people who have a excellent understanding of English in vocabulary, sentence structure, etc. but who just cannot pronounce it.
Did you ever have a Indian ask you “Please do the necessary.”? To myself, a native of the Anglosphere, it came across as a sort of demand. I used to council my Indian direct reports that while they should have no hesitation to use it with fellow Indians that with Americans they should use “I appreciate your assistance.” so that it didn’t imply a command. It may have just be that I am the only one that thought that way.
Our NATO partners—and they have already fully surrendered.
I am on a working vacation that has lasted about 3 years doing programming at a defense contractor at a rate of about triple what I could command in the private sector due to the prohibition of not being able to utilize foreign contractors or to outsource offshore. I was real tired of working with nutjobs in sales. Never let anyone tell you that supply and demand doesn't affect pricing.
>>Did you ever have a Indian ask you “Please do the necessary.”? <<
Or my favorite variation — “please do the needful.”
I think it is just a clumsy translation of Hindi for “can you please do what is needed?”
I always thought it is actually pretty concise as a request — I never thought it was really a demand.
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