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US Government Fears China Bugs Lenovo PCs
An anonymous reader writes "After approving the sale of IBM's PC Division to the Chinese Corporation Lenovo, the US Government has realized China could bug Lenovo PCs destined for US Government customers. Would the US have done the same to China? With American businesses so eager for business in China no matter what, where are we headed?"
Hey.. it's a free market. In this market, the Chinese must be willing to work for free, and the US partner should be free to make profits forever. That's REAL FREE MARKET ECONOMICS for you!
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
It's paranoid delusions like this that will bring about the downfall of the US
Will program for karma.
Having a link in the uber-parent to one of Chomsky's endless rants against the United States strikes a terrible blow to the overall seriousness of the issue at hand. Chomsky is a crackpot, is trained in linguistics, not geo-politics, political theory, et al, and giving airs to this guy who will be completely forgotten in 50 years is not a very good way to build up any crediblity. I'm certain that a link from a reputable person of scholarly merits could have been found focusing on whether the US would have bugged the Chinese given the chance in situations X, Y and Z. Playing to the fringe may excite those who are too young or ignorant to know any better, but it makes Slashdot look very stupid.
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JESUS! If I see another one of these 'dupe' posts I'm gonna POP!
That allegation of "support" for Saddam is as stupid as it can get. Saddam Hussein was a puppet of the Soviet Union, his army was armed and trained by the Soviet Union, he never had any sort of equipment or training from the USA.
In the 1980s, Iran which had received weapons and support from the USA years before, became an enemy of the USA due to its fundamentalist Islamic government. The USA may have leaked some information about American military hardware to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, but that's all the "support" that the USA ever gave to Saddam. After all, at that time, Iraq was a Soviet satellite in the final and decisive years of the Cold War.
Likewise, in the 1960s the Soviet Union had a very tense situation at the Russian-Chinese border. The USA may have leaked some information about China to the Soviet Union, does this mean the USA supported the Soviet Union?