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UK's competition regulator fires red flare over Nvidia's $40bn Arm takeover deal

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Re: Far to late

You're talking about different things though. This intervention is from the CMA on grounds of risk to competition. Softbank weren't a player in the chip market, and so there was no competition reason to look at the deal.

What you're asking for is some sort of industrial policy, where the government controls who can own what company - or some sort of security policy to stop ownership from foreign nations we don't like. Japan and the US are allies - so even there you're not really talking about a security barrier, so much as a foreign ownership barrier.

Now that's fine, it's a perfectly rational policy choice. But it does have costs. It's much more risky investing into an economy, if the government might intervene when it comes time to try and get your money out, by selling an asset. We've been one of the top global destinations for inward investment for the last 20-30 years - killing that off will have costs, so it's a policy you need to look at carefully.

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