After exfiltrating the data, he was offered a job in Chinese AI startup. Whether or not a real startup, or just s Communist party / military company is an interesting question.
Eventually tech leaders will stop hiring Chinese nationals. This keeps happening again and again.
They should already be at that point. I’m surprised it isn’t a violation of sanctions or something to have them working on cutting edge tech.
No they won’t, they’ll get hit with the dreaded “racist hiring practices” accusations. China knows this, and they exploit it. If tomorrow Google announced a ban on hiring any Russian nationals the HN comments and the media would by and large applaud such a move, by contrast.
All Chinese startups are Communist Party companies, success dictates just *how* tied-in they are.
exactly, this guy understands how business in China works.
How do you imagine this works, western government can’t manage potholes but CCP beurocrats can manage AI, Car production and solar panel production and beat our companies? Are they superhuman?
actually got some government shill who can't even spell to respond. touch a nerve?
Bureaucrats in different countries operate at very different levels of efficiency. e.g. Germany vs Italy
I've worked for a Chinese company and with Chinese company partners, but I am not Chinese, so my understanding is probably very, very incomplete. The way it seems to work is that the "influence" from the CCP scales with the size/success of the company. Every business in China operates at the very least with consent of the government. As they get more and more successful, they gain a little more influence/encouragement/cooperation with government. By the time they are giant, successful companies, they're all but an appendage of the government. Hard to explain as an American because we don't have similar "quasi-government" institutions like this. I guess it would be a little like the Federal Reserve--it's technically not the government, but works hand-in-hand with the government.
You will find, it is closer to the old German standard (1).