re <<In 2010, China announced plans to require Western companies doing business in China to turn over sensitive technologies and patents to Chinese competitors in exchange for access to the country's markets.>>
the policy even if not enunciated had been in place since 1982, from the get-go, and there had always been willing sellers, i.e. Ericsson, Motorola, GE, GM, ...
and there were some unwilling sellers who decided to ring-fence China, i.e. Gencor (bio leaching of gold) of S.Africa, polysilicon players, etc etc
on the whole, the former group did much better than the latter, because China gets what is needed irrespective of willingness to cooperate, because there are always willing sellers, to leverage China scale. |
