At a January U.S. Chamber of Commerce dinner in Washington, executives pressed U.S. Ambassador
to China Terry Branstad not to hit Beijing too hard on technology issues, according to dinner attendees.
China has many ways to get even, warned Christopher Padilla, a vice president of International
Business Machines Corp. , which licenses technology to Chinese firms.
“If someone gets knifed in a dark alley, you don’t know who did it until the next morning,” Mr. Padilla
said at the dinner. “But there has been a murder.”
Yeah, so overwhelming worry about getting stabbed to death in some dark alley in some filthy Chinese city is sufficient justification to make deals with state-run/connected Chinese companies to "share" technology just so IBM can sell into the Chinese marketplace? All hail the almighty $$!
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-china-systematically-pries-technology-from-u-s-companies-1537972066