Re: China as a high tech source

[Eubulides <paraconsistent@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/11/05, michael perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


[snip]
> It is foreigners who have driven much of the growth, with heavy
> investment from global giants like Intel
> <http://www.nytimes.com/redirect/marketwatch/redirect.ctx?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&symb=INTC>,
> Nokia
> <http://www.nytimes.com/redirect/marketwatch/redirect.ctx?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&symb=NOK>,
> Motorola
> <http://www.nytimes.com/redirect/marketwatch/redirect.ctx?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&symb=MEU>,
> Microsoft
> <http://www.nytimes.com/redirect/marketwatch/redirect.ctx?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&symb=MSFT>
> and Cisco Systems
> <http://www.nytimes.com/redirect/marketwatch/redirect.ctx?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&symb=CSCO>.
>
> Figures from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce show that companies that
> had received overseas investment accounted for almost 90 percent of 2004
> exports of high technology products.
>
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So why isn't the subject heading "MNC's as High Tech. source?"

I can't remember the author of the old phrase "I deem nothing foreign
to me as regards humanity" or some such. Surely corporate managers and
trade lawyers have internalized such a perspective, albeit in a manner
that suits their prerogatives re accumulation. So why can't leftists
reframe this as *not* about countries, but firms and know-how and
connect that with the pathologies of the corporate form of ownership?
Isn't it the global politics of corporate governance rather that's at
issue? If we concede the Realists 90% of their privileged terms
regarding the narrative and explanatory inferential strategies which
are driving so much of contemporary jingoism and machismo, one might
as well throw in the towel on putting class, poverty, environmental
destruction and the like on the front pages again.