05-20-2006, 03:55 PM
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4997288.stm
<b>US government restricts China PCs </b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->It was "no secret that the US is a principal target of Chinese intelligence services", he said, adding: "No American government agency should want to purchase from them".
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Last year, Lenovo - the world's number three PC maker - bought the IBM PC Division and moved its executive headquarters from China to the US.
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But Lenovo insisted the state department computers, which were made at former IBM facilities in North Carolina and Mexico, posed no security threat.
<b>"We are absolutely confident in the security of our manufacturing process,"</b> Jeff Carlisle, the firm's vice-president of government relations, said.
"These computers do not present a risk to US security."
He said the <b>Chinese Academy of Sciences, an arm of the Chinese government, had a "minority interest" in the company and was not involved in its day-to-day operations</b>.
<b>"We're not a state-owned enterprise," </b>Mr Carlisle added.
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It means made in China PC are sercurity risk for other countries.
<b>US government restricts China PCs </b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->It was "no secret that the US is a principal target of Chinese intelligence services", he said, adding: "No American government agency should want to purchase from them".
.............
Last year, Lenovo - the world's number three PC maker - bought the IBM PC Division and moved its executive headquarters from China to the US.
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But Lenovo insisted the state department computers, which were made at former IBM facilities in North Carolina and Mexico, posed no security threat.
<b>"We are absolutely confident in the security of our manufacturing process,"</b> Jeff Carlisle, the firm's vice-president of government relations, said.
"These computers do not present a risk to US security."
He said the <b>Chinese Academy of Sciences, an arm of the Chinese government, had a "minority interest" in the company and was not involved in its day-to-day operations</b>.
<b>"We're not a state-owned enterprise," </b>Mr Carlisle added.
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It means made in China PC are sercurity risk for other countries.