China mulls forcing automakers to devulge electric-car secrets

Often, I think I know China well. However, just as often, it occurs to me that I don't really know what I thought I knew. The visions and experiences collected and stored in my mind while I am awake are gone after I have slept. Reasoning and understanding seem to last only for a few hours before becoming illusory: the images and meanings disappear one by one, stolen from me by apparitions and secreted away, never to be returned in their original form. The understandings that I have assiduously acquired are nothing more than banal when bound together to try and shape the oldest continuous civilization on earth. Experience, learning, and proudly possessed knowledge, gained from many sources and from interaction with its people, are taken from everyone who thinks they know China and passed on to others who share them smugly, use them with confidence, reverently broadcast them as Gospel for a few praiseworthy moments. "I know China." Then, time and circumstance mangle them until they are beyond comprehension. These ,too, will be passed on and shared as truth, only to be proved wrong again. The enigma is this: China never changes, but China always changes. Its people beset by burden, affected with melancholy, inured to bewilderment, and suckled on uninterrupted millennia of incalculable hopelessness and sorrow. "There is chaos under heaven and things could not be better", said Mao Zedong. This is the real truth: "China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese" - Charles De Gaulle. China: don't ask, it is what it is... ,,,,,,,,W.D. Box

09/18/2010

China mulls forcing automakers to devulge electric-car secrets

The fastest way for China to develop a thriving electric-car industry that can overwhelm the West: Require foreign automakers to give up their electric car secrets and technology as a condition of selling cars in China.
That what the Chinese government is mulling as it tries to become the "world's leader" in electric-car technology within 10 years, the Wall Street Journal reports. The proposal could force foreign automakers -- basically all major makers since China has been a more vigorous market than the U.S. or Europe -- to hand over their technology to their Chinese companies.

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Sep 18, 2010 10:21:41 AM | Automobiles, Business, Current Affairs

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