interesting to attempt another China-US wireless tech acquisition. i dont think the current administration will look too kindly on this.
Foxconn is the company, more than any other in the world, which knows how to make computer equipment. Asian, mostly Chinese, business networks are becoming the only ones that know how to make modern computers at all.
Western companies get hardware to market by having it made by those who know how to make it (i.e. Chinese partners). If the Chinese companies now want to sell things directly to consumers, there's nothing to stop them -- buying US companies might be the easiest path, but other paths exist.
In no way does this mean that the Chinese are going to come and economically dominate everything. But it is hubris to imagine that holding onto companies will prevent change.
75% of Intel's fabrication plants are still in the US, so the core of modern computing is still domestically owned and operated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_manufacturing_si...
But for many other computer components, such as displays, it's incredibly difficult to find a U.S. firm that hasn't outsourced manufacturing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_liquid-crystal-display...
> Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., trading as Foxconn Technology Group, is a multinational electronics contract manufacturing company headquartered in Tucheng, New Taipei, Taiwan.
This comment isn't too far from mistaking South Korea for North Korea.
(Aside: I'm currently a legal resident of the Republic of Korea.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaesong_Industrial_Region
It's not a perfect analogy because China already has nukes. If they didn't, it's plausible Taiwan would do the same in the face of Chinese saber rattling.