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Software by an American Company[0] founded by a man who's been here since the 90s[1] is now "Chinese Tech"? Is everything from Paul Graham "British Tech"? Are Apple Products now "Chinese Tech" because of their keyservers in China[2]?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Video_Communications

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Yuan

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-apple-icloud-insigh...

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I find it shocking that your comment is being downvoted.

If Zoom is “Chinese tech” because of the CEO’s ethnicity, then I suppose NVIDIA and AMD are now “Chinese tech.”

I never said anything about ethnicity. Maybe "tech with critical security related software components developed and hosted in China, by Chinese nationals, thus clearly subject to draconian Chinese laws and potentially exposed to Chinese government and military influence" would be more precise. That's as close to "Chinese tech" though, as makes no difference.

I would expect a more stringent approach to something used by a government to actually conduct "governing", and in the time of crisis at that!

https://nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/NVIDIAExternalCareerSit...

https://jobs.amd.com/search/?createNewAlert=false&q=&locatio...

The Nvidia WeWork link might not work but you can look for job postings and filter for China yourself.

Zoom also has over 700 employees in China.

So does Apple.

At Apple Stores. Not developing their software.

https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/search?location=china-CHNC&team...

Look for yourself how many postings they have for software and hardware positions in China.

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