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China Syndrome - turning the tabels

Capt'n Midnight · 2005-02-26 18:05:40

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/24/ibm_lenovo_spooks/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/25/china_chooses_evd/ The chinese also developed an alternative to the GSM phone systems used here.. Just might be a move away from the NSA paranoia back to the "yellow peril" for some of the foil linned headgear brigade

26-02-2005 7:05pm

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/24/ibm_lenovo_spooks/

More to the point, perhaps, China doesn't want this part of its blooming consumer electronics industry to be in hock to overseas companies. The format will allow domestic manufacturers to "shake off their previous dependence on foreign technologies", as the Communist Party newspaper, the People's Daily, put it at the time.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/25/china_chooses_evd/

For years the Chinese government fretted that the US was using its technology lead to spy on the country - but now the tables are turned. The US government has much deeper concerns about what China can glean from the historic Lenovo-IBM PC deal than recent reports have indicated.

Concessions offered by IBM to the US Treasury's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States were rejected yesterday, Bloomberg reports. The Committee is worried that IBM's North Carolina facility presents opportunities for industrial espionage. Even the IBM customer list - and the US government is a very big customer indeed - could divulge information the US doesn't want China to see.

The chinese also developed an alternative to the GSM phone systems used here..

Just might be a move away from the NSA paranoia back to the "yellow peril" for some of the foil linned headgear brigade

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