A quick reminder that non-Chinese companies can't establish a subsidiary in China, they always need a Chinese partner that would then own the majority of the Chinese joint venture. And that's just one among many other protectionist rules that illustrate how the Chinese Communist Party shields its domestic supply chains, including the use of forced labour.
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Do you have reliable sources for the forced labor accusation?
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This is only true for limited restricted industries these days, which include telecommunications, education services, certain financial services, media and cultural industries, market surveys, and some transportation and aviation activities, but this is not true for most manufacturing, logistics and related services, R&D, and environmental stuff.
https://www.china-briefing.com/news/chinas-foreign-investment-negative-list-guide/
https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/china-allow-overseas-investors-access-more-sectors-2025-04-24/
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Your comment is false, just read your own linked article.
China was just reducing the number of 'restricted industries' to 106 from 117 (this alone is a joke), but companies can still acquire only a minority stake. They need a partner.
The only non-Chinese company in China is Elon Musk's Tesla. It's the only exemption.
Oh, and what does it mean anyway when the Chinese government issues such lists or introduces any laws. The owners of China's AI company Manus also played by the rules and sold their company to Meta as announced already in December 2025, but now China blocks the $2bn acquisition of AI start-up Manus:
Beijing's National Development and Reform Commission [has] prohibited foreign investment in the deal, requiring "the parties involved to withdraw the acquisition transaction".
[Edit typo.]
So, China vows countermeasures to European countermeasures to what China does for some time now.
Of course, how else are you going to stay competitive (-;
When the dogs start barking, we are doing something right
Yeah China has no leg to stand on in this. Since forever, non chinese companies are forced to create "partnerships" with chinese ones to be allowed to do business over there, with the overt goal of transferring knowhow and maintaining control.
Seeing how NXP/Nexperia went, we should, too.
I decided I would make more home cooked food. Then I got a letter from the local pizzeria, telling me they would retaliate.
Haha How? Would they send more commercials into your mail box? Send an aeroplane to the sky with a commercial every day? Wake you up with pizzeria chants every morning? ๐คญ
Everyone wants the EU to roll over and put itself into future dependency upon one of them.
well that is what it's good at
And why not, itโs one of the largest consumer markets right now, with anomalous concentrated level of wealth inherited from brutal conquests and colonial times giving each consumer buying power generally much higher than in other equal markets.
Canโt blame them for trying. Also canโt blame EU not giving in so readily.
The authors of "made in china 2025" say what?
I thought they were the ones who were against "foreign interference" lmao
Ridiculous, China loves having everything made in house and yet itโs bad if others do it too?
china throws tantrum, everyone continues as per normal.