Uber has denied that code in a previous version of its app from
a Chinese partner company was used to track the location of users outside of the Asian country.
Not exact matches
But foreign
companies are unhappy over requirements that they share key details about their technology to
Chinese partners.
Her $ 8 billion division has 23,000 employees whose main business is
partnering with
Chinese companies across 34 joint ventures in China that manufacture everything from wind turbines to oil pipeline equipment.
Like all foreign
companies, Tmall
partners must establish a
Chinese - licensed business unit and a
Chinese bank account.
I can't say that I started a
company that
partners with restaurants because of the time I spent at McDonald's, or because of the time I spent working in my mom's
Chinese restaurant — the first business she worked in after we moved to this country.
«
Chinese companies and investors see an opportunity [in Silicon Valley],» says David Zilberman, a
partner at Comcast Ventures, the venture capital affiliate of Comcast Corp., in San Francisco.
Understand that most private
Chinese companies are family businesses, and «family trumps
partners,» Nelson says.
These favorable regulatory policies are helping
Chinese companies grow faster and develop drugs and medical devices cheaper than the U.S, explained Qiming Venture
Partners managing
partner Nisa Leung.
Chinese companies have indicated they'd be willing to offer a discount to
partners that transact in renminbi, a cost saving that could prove significant.
• Tall Tree Foods, a portfolio
company of Altamont Capital
Partners, has acquired The January Co., a Kent, Wash. - based manufacturer of
Chinese - style meat products.
By contrast, though the Obama administration wanted to drastically upgrade the United States» relationship with Indonesia, an important strategic
partner, it could not convince many American
companies to invest there, and, unlike the
Chinese leadership, it could not force them to do so.
American
companies have long chafed under
Chinese regulations that require them to operate through local
partners and share technology with potential competitors in exchange for market access.
However, the Uber deal means that the
Chinese company secured a global
partner with a strong name to have by its side.
Trump seeks concessions over policies that force US
companies to share technology with
Chinese partners.
China will this year become the world's largest mobile gaming market by revenue, earning more than $ 6 billion, says Peter Warman, CEO of Dutch mobile analytics
company Newzoo, which analyses data from its
Chinese partner TalkingData.
Jason Ding, a
partner at Bain &
Company's Beijing office, is an expert in retail and the
Chinese consumer.
Foreign tech
companies including Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Cisco are
partnering with China's state - owned enterprises in order to win the good graces of the
Chinese government, which views them with suspicion.
The term Great Firewall, then, should be seen as encompassing policy areas well beyond the extensive censorship system, to include forced technology transfer, forced partnership with
Chinese partners, ever more sophisticated theft of intellectual property, demands that internet data be «secure and controllable,» legislation allowing government officials to demand access to software source code, and denial of access for major internet platform
companies such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook.
The mission allowed artificial intelligence - driven software
companies Irystec, Zighra, Miovision, and Fluent.ia to meet major
Chinese business
partners and institutional investors in Beijing, Shenzhen and Hong Kong.
And in some cases,
Chinese companies have shown they still have much to learn, even after cozying up to American
partners.
Having a foreign
partner is no sure indicator that a
Chinese company is ready to take on the world.
American
companies sometimes willingly strike deals with
Chinese partners because they feel China is too profitable to miss out on.
The
company could enjoy a big financial boost if it manages to shed its
Chinese partners.
Trump would also submit legislation on currency manipulation, review whether our trading
partners engage in «harmful» practices, and would order the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US to review food security in trade and reciprocity in international corporate takeovers (i.e. whether a US
company would be able to buy a
Chinese company like a
Chinese company would be able to be buy a US
company).
After a year that has seen Apple's reputation tested by controversy over the way its
Chinese production
partners treated low - paid workers, observers said Cook might have seen an opportunity to bolster the
company's image as a socially responsible and progressive force.
Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the
Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the
Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the
Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the
Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the
Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the
Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the
Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by
Chinese regulators; (vii) the
Company's largest sales platform and strategic
partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the
Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million
Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the
Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
SoftBank's Vision Fund is also serious enough about China that it had been scouting last year for a new local
partner to lead its investing in
Chinese companies, two people familiar with the conversations tell Recode.
The U.S. is expected to press China over rules requiring U.S.
companies to
partner with
Chinese companies in order to operate in China, requirements that the Trump administration says facilitates forced technology transfers.
US scrutinizes China's IP practices The Trump administration is considering taking trade action against China and is discussing launching a probe into Beijing's insistence that foreign
companies transfer technology to local
Chinese subsidiaries and
partners.
That barrier's now been lifted: With the removal of ownership caps, the
company no longer has to
partner with a
Chinese carmaker.
China has imposed regulations that require American
companies to share their technology with
Chinese partners, for example, mandating that foreign
companies operate through joint ventures if they want access to
Chinese consumers.
In order to produce and sell electric vehicles in China, European
companies are being pushed to share their battery technology with
Chinese partners.
Among the deals killed recently by the multi-agency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) were Ant Financial's plan to buy U.S. money transfer
company MoneyGram International Inc (MGI.O), the purchase by China - backed Canyon Bridge Capital
Partners LLC of a U.S. chip maker and plans by Zhongwang USA, backed by a
Chinese aluminum tycoon, to buy a U.S. aluminum maker.
Take away: Kia's parent
company Hyundai has already been in a tough fight with its
Chinese partner BAIC Group over supply issues.
JVP became a strategic
partner of Alibaba two years ago and since then the
Chinese company has invested tens of millions of dollars in JVP and its portfolio
companies.
The move, as the
company explained, is to «capture growing demand for premium imported wine amongst
Chinese customers», as well as for the
company's wholesale distributor
partners.
DAMAC, the
company partnering on Trump's new golf course in Dubai, awarded a multimillion - dollar contract to a firm owned by the
Chinese government — violating the president's promise to avoid foreign government transactions while he's in office.
In the meantime, the first prototype midfrequency dish, built by
Chinese company CETC54 in collaboration European
partner companies, will be unveiled tomorrow in China, to be joined within a few months by a second prototype in South Africa.
Q: U.S.
companies are quite worried about protection of intellectual property in China, and how to strike a balance between accessing markets and transferring technology to
Chinese partners.
Our American - owned
company partners with
Chinese artisans who are highly trained and exceptionally skilled at creating Xtrema ceramic cookware.
MINI made the news a while back when the British
company announced plans to join forces with a local
Chinese partner, Great Wall.
The
company is
partnering with the
Chinese e-commerce website Suning for the launch of Redmi S2.
Having struggled with the
Chinese law that prevents the
company from
partnering with a local e-publisher, there are many more challenges up ahead how Amazon can make enough profit from their low - cost hardware when they have to compete with piracy and cheap tablets from within the country.
My quick and dirty interpretation is that KHD management, who by the way have almost no ownership interest in the
company, have solicited a
Chinese partner in order to facilitate KHD's entry into the highly desirable
Chinese market by selling them an interest in KHD at a below market price.
«It reflects our commitment to meeting the needs of
Chinese guests and
partnering with exceptional
Chinese companies such as Ctrip.»
The
company's wider sporting connections include being the exclusive hotel
partner of McLaren, based in the UK, plus the US Olympic Committee, Canadian Olympic Committee and
Chinese Olympic Committee.
The Global Trends Report 2011 predicted hotel
companies would customise their brands in China,
partnering with
Chinese companies and creating programmes to cater to the
Chinese abroad, on the back of the increasing spending by
Chinese travellers on travel accommodation.
Although China's Anbang Insurance and its
partners ultimately lost to Marriott in a see - saw bidding battle for control of Starwood Hotels & Resorts, a different
Chinese company has succeeded in buying another U.S. lodging giant.
- Nintendo has always been aware of Nintendo fans living in mainland China - Kimishima hopes that one day they could play Nintendo games just like any person in other countries can - Nintendo has been working for more than 10 years to enter the
Chinese market - despite their efforts, they have not found a solution of doing so - Nintendo could not enter China by their own - while there are many
Chinese companies who wish to
partner with Nintendo, there are many problems yet to be solved - finding a
partner would not simply make those problems disappear - Nintendo will continue working on finding a solution the the problem
It's highly unlikely that Niantic will be able to release the game in China unless they
partner with a
Chinese company like Baidu to use their maps instead, and with the new regulations in place that requires all mobile games to be approved, it's highly unlikely that the
Chinese Government will even approve a foreign GPS tracking game in the first place.