American Entrepreneurs Who Flocked to China Are Heading Home, Disillusioned

WSJ ^ | 12/07/2018 | James T. Areddy

[SpeedyInTexas]

Fifteen years ago in California, a tall technology geek named Steve Mushero started writing a book that predicted the American dream might soon “be found only in China.” Before long, Mr. Mushero moved himself to Shanghai and launched a firm that Amazon.com Inc. and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. certified as a partner to serve the world’s biggest internet market.

These days, the tech pioneer has hit a wall. He’s heading back to Silicon Valley where he sees deeper demand for his know-how in cloud computing. “The future’s not here,” said the 52-year-old.

[Rashputin]

He's lucky but he should have learned from Kipling:

Now, it is not good for the Christian’s health to hustle the Aryan brown,
For the Christian riles, and the Aryan smiles, and he weareth the Christian down;
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white, with the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear: ‘A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.’

— Solo from Libretto of Naulahka.

Rudyard Kipling

Note : 'Christian' as used at the time is the same as 'Western' now

[Rashputin]

They learned the hard way that no matter how useful they are to the Chinese or how much the produce for them, they’re not Chinese and never will be which matters a Hell of a lot in China and always has.

[Pelham]

Yep. The memos that say “we are all the world” and “coexist” haven’t arrived there and never will.

[DoughtyOne]

LMAO

But NewsMax said Trump was failing to address the trade deficit with China?

How can this be?

How caaan this be????

[Noamie]

My whole adult life Ive listened to fools say that a communist country would crush us economically.

NO communist country will ever have long term, sustainable, economic growth. Anyone who says otherwise is stupid, or a communist.

[Amberdawn]

Amen. I understand the frustration at the way the U.S. government (until now) has hampered American businesses, but the answer is to fight those stupid destructive government policies instead of moving overseas.

[Amberdawn]

I don’t think the poster considered them traitors, IMHO. I DO think that many larger American companies bailed out of the U.S. instead of fighting to make our policies more business and employee friendly.