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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lml who wrote (147894)	7/24/2018 11:46:35 AM
From: Wildbiftek	Respond to of 197032

China still has the power to make life miserable for a number of large American tech companies doing business there. They may not have anything to gain from blocking this deal but they might still want to even the score for the existing tariffs levied against them, and this is one of the only avenues outside of tariffs (where they will run out of leverage sooner than the U.S.) that it has to strike back at the U.S. There's still plenty of room to roll back tensions after an escalation like this... You could imagine that a deal involving Apple is also in the works. China might not approve Qualcomm NXP but speed through Qualcomm's patent infringement suit as an excuse to banning sales of iPhones in China in order to deeply hurt a major American company whose actual final sales come from China.