Comment by satvikpendem
4 months ago
> And China doesn't (didn't?) allow foreign companies to operate in China without a local partner at all
Tesla was the first to buck this trend.
4 months ago
> And China doesn't (didn't?) allow foreign companies to operate in China without a local partner at all
Tesla was the first to buck this trend.
The next question is: why did China give Tesla this unprecedented deal?
The answer I heard at the time was to get local suppliers and workforce up to Tesla standards.
It appears to have worked out for China quite nicely.
Catfish effect. Ensure local players just don't become welfare queen mooching subsidy and incentives from govt both local and national.
That answer is American propaganda, Teslas (especially earlier ones) are famous for their crappy build quality. Tesla would be nothing without the Elon hypetrain.
Chinese Teslas had higher standards early on, panels aligned and such.
Well yeah, they used this playbook with Apple as well.
We do not appear to be very smart as a country.
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Just for cars. Microsoft has been independent in China since the late 90s, although they had to find a partner to do Azure.
> although they had to find a partner to do Azure.
By "finding a partner" you actually mean have Azure-branded services provided by Chinese companies through isolated data centers.
Which kind of proves OPs point.
Do they use the same Microsoft software and the Azure APIs that are available in the rest of the world?
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Same as AWS ("cn" regions) which often has different rules, especially with cross-region comms.
Same applies to the US gov cloud regions and Apple's iCloud.
Microsoft operated in China for more than a decade before azure was a thing. A lot of companies did, Microsoft is just the one I’m familiar with.
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