China somehow got through COVID without MS Teams but – phew! – it's arrived China somehow, unbelievably, made it through the COVID-19 pandemic without a local version of Microsoft's Teams collaborationware app, but thankfully it won't have to face the next crisis similarly unarmed. On Saturday Microsoft 365 made its debut behind the Great Firewall. Teams has long been available in China, but Microsoft …
If Microsoft gave two shits about human rights etc, they'd pull out of China. But its clear they never will.
Apple are "pretending" to but I suspect never will considering Cook opened a store there recently.
Then we have Elon with his battery factories over there.
All indirectly supporting a CCP who is building for war.
Microsoft won't be allowed to.
Here is the Q&A you missed:
Q: "How will the US spy on China?"
A: "The same way as they do on Europe, of course."
That said, I give it at most a week before someone intelligent sticks a sniffer on their network traffic, discover what it's up to and that will be that. They appear to be a tad more agile when it comes to dealing with intelligence threats than Europe, I'm guessing because subversion via lobbying is much harder over there.
... how much backlash with investors or in the stock market there would be if a major tech company simply announced that they were not willing to offer their services in any country that didn't have a minimum threshold of online freedom?
Because my hunch is that for all the protest from western activists around overseas repression, the people doing the actual investing would tank the stock if a company renounced 15-20% of their revenue.
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