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How can governments ensure all companies get equal access to China?
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ocset:
Hi,
This talks  of UK, but just sub in [your country]  instead as it applies to all countries…

With regard to electronics, I used to work   for a company where I could pick any  electronics component  from  farnell etc……then give this component to my boss…then he could speak  to his Chinese employee based in China….and we would get the component from China at a quarter  (or less) of the price, and usually better quality too.

Eg stuff like TO220 heatsinks, ESD floor tiles,  ferrite core halves and bobbins for  transformers, Thermal chambers, Thermal cameras,  1Kw “variable mains” Bench power supplies …almost anything.

We could even source Chinese factories to do destruction testing of our power supplies  at a really cheap price……eg they would run the SMPS at [max power/min vin] for 1 hour at a time at incrementally increased temperatures until it blew up. Then send us the blown PSU’s so we could inspect and see what  failed.

We could also get dirt cheap conducted EMC scans done on offline power supplies….(and we would  always send them two PSUs….one that we already knew the frequency trace of so we could check up on them…and the  Chinese  EMC labs never got it wrong.)

I notice that other  electronics companies in the UK do not have access to these things. These UK companies are worse off for this. Hence their profitability is less and thus they end up  paying  less tax to the UK government.
How can the UK government ensure that all UK electronics companies have equal access to these Chinese “wonder“ factories and facilities?

In Germany, I don’t mind betting that  the German government intervenes to ensure fairness , and ensures that all German companies share their Chinese  “wonder” contacts….equally, the German government probably also has a dept set up to ensure  any  “bad” Chinese companies get highlighted to all German companies (if there is such thing as a bad Chinese supplier)
Siwastaja:
It's completely up to the individuals who know how to communicate, and who have built personal connections to the Chinese companies.

Anybody has "the access", I know this very well because I have personally sourced parts and communicated about custom manufacturing and engineering services. The Chinese are great to work with. You can start anytime through Alibaba.

Governments have no part in this, and hopefully never will.
MK14:
You seem to be obsessively posting the same/similar/related threads, again and again.
SMPSs made in UK, and China.

Is there some kind of non-resettable fuse, I can blow. Which will stop you from doing this ?
coppice:
So, you want companies to share the most sensitive information any business has? I'm sure that will work out wonderfully. If you wanted a government body to develop its own connections with great resources around the world, and help local businesses access them, that exists in many countries. It exists in the UK. Its just not that active, as the UK has given up on electronics, despite some Department of Trade and Industry exhibitions which try to indicate the contrary.
coppice:

--- Quote from: MK14 on April 18, 2020, 04:04:03 pm ---You seem to be obsessively posting the same/similar/related threads, again and again.
SMPSs made in UK, and China.

Is there some kind of non-resettable fuse, I can blow. Which will stop you from doing this ?

--- End quote ---
For a switched mode guy he seems to have a real problem switching modes.  :)
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