<story><title>Y Combinator Abruptly Shutters YC China</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/21/y-combinator-abruptly-shutters-yc-china/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>saagarjha</author><text>Discussion from last week: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=21597763&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=21597763&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Y Combinator Abruptly Shutters YC China</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/21/y-combinator-abruptly-shutters-yc-china/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ixtli</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d love to assume this had something to do with government abuses and overreach that YC couldn&amp;#x27;t condone, but call me cynical, im not holding my breath.&lt;p&gt;Also, I wonder if when asian businesses consider starting up something in the US if local news write articles like this. E.g.:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;That there is no mention of the uncertain international politics and U.S.-China relations right now, nor the explosive situation in Hong Kong, or ongoing human rights issues elsewhere in the country, seems a deliberate choice to make this move seem as ordinary as possible. But those things are major questions for anyone looking to do business in [the US], and it’s hard to believe none had any bearing on the decision to abruptly pack up and leave a major enterprise behind.&amp;quot;</text></comment>