News Local and foreign chip manufacturers expand their presence in Vietnam — companies move to Southeast Asia as tensions simmer between China and the U.S.

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Many chip companies are expanding their presence in Vietnam, especially in back-end manufacturing, as the tensions between China and the U.S. continue to simmer.

Local and foreign chip manufacturers expand their presence in Vietnam — companies move to Southeast Asia as tensions simmer between China and the U.S. : Read more

 

[thth]

Why do western companies love to setup production in communist countries. If they want to move away from China why move to another communist country instead of the many democratic countries in that area.

 

[Kondamin]

Why do western companies love to setup production in communist countries. If they want to move away from China why move to another communist country instead of the many democratic countries in that area.

Stable government, cheap labor lax laws, they already know the people from earlier projects so they have a foot in the door.

Myanmar is a no, Cambodja is a no too.

Indonesia has a big tech sector, I don’t know about Thailand but that’s probably similar to Indonesia. Philippines has its own boom.

I think that’s about the whole region.

 

[nrdwka]

Why do western companies love to setup production in communist countries. If they want to move away from China why move to another communist country instead of the many democratic countries in that area.

Because any International realpolitic is nothing to do with democracy, especially for leading countries - it is about strategic dominance.

 

[edzieba]

Why do western companies love to setup production in communist countries. If they want to move away from China why move to another communist country instead of the many democratic countries in that area.

Because that geographic region has all the chip packagers, passive component makers, PCB manufacturers, PCB assemblers, casing manufacturers, casing assemblers, etc, night next to each other. Moving one operation to the other wise of the world stretches that supply chain and adds a lot of cost, and replicating that entire supporting supply chain elsewhere adds extreme cost.

 

[circadia]

Why do western companies love to setup production in communist countries. If they want to move away from China why move to another communist country instead of the many democratic countries in that area.

eh, as a Vietnamese.... our country isn't that bad. Yes, there is not much democracy. Yes, our government does abduct activists who are already out of the country for "anti-government talk". And, many people in here are quite unreasonable, politics-wise. Nevertheless, at least we are far more open and friendly to the West than... whatever China is. Also, we're not "communist", we're socialist.

 

[P.Amini]

eh, as a Vietnamese.... our country isn't that bad. Yes, there is not much democracy. Yes, our government does abduct activists who are already out of the country for "anti-government talk". And, many people in here are quite unreasonable, politics-wise. Nevertheless, at least we are far more open and friendly to the West than... whatever China is. Also, we're not "communist", we're socialist.

I've been in your country, it seems Vietnamese people (even younger generation) still don't like America as far as I can tell.

 

[circadia]

I've been in your country, it seems Vietnamese people (even younger generation) still don't like America as far as I can tell.

I mean....

1. America invaded our country, after all... not to mention installing an arguably genocidal puppet regime in the South.
2. not many people know English well enough, lol. Like, our country's English proficiency score literally just decreased last week. So, people don't really dare to be really friendly towards foreigners in general, because of that language barrier.