[Willie Green]

Is IBM's Lenovo Proposal a Threat to National Security?
China Pursues 'Manifest Destiny' Through Mercantilism and Imperialism
CAFTA: The Expanding Trade Deficit with China by Another Name?
Bush seeks quick action on CAFTA
Bush Economic Polices Threaten National Security

[Mr. Mojo]

......and there have been many incidents of the theft of military technology through commercial or research channels

And Presidential ones too.

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

On Jan. 20, in US President George W. Bush's second inauguration speech, he said that "the survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world."

Yet, George Bush has abandoned Taiwan and said the U.S. will pusue the "One China" policy.

If Clinton did this, the entire forum here would be calling Clinton a liar.

[FreedomAvatar]

I'm not worried. We'll fatten them up with hamburgers and sue them into oblivion.

[Dog Gone]

Anyone who thinks China won't be an economic superpower and fully capable of ICBM warfare by 2040 is kidding themselves.

There is absolutely no way to prevent it.

[Nick Danger]

The fact that this guy wants to tell us that China is bad news should not obscure the fact that this is a horribly written piece that reflects a mind that can string words together, but cannot think.

This guy goes back and forth, all over the map, arguing with himself. He crabs about IBM selling them a PC factory, but then tells us that the best way for the communists to stay in power is to block the people's access to information. Well, which is it? Should we encourage the proliferation of PCs in China, or not? There is no better tool for spreading information around quickly than a PC. Shouldn't we hope they're stupid enough to put a PC on every desk?

The Russian dissidents had their Samizdat — illegally xeroxed books and pamphlets that they passed around. The Chinese could have the electronic version, running at the speed of light. But nooooo, we should keep PC technology out of the hands of the Chinese because of all the national security secrets in it. What a joke. The Cray XT3 we should keep secret. But PCs? Come on. The stuff is all made in China now anyway.

Then he crabs that if we don't sell them a PC factory, somebody else will. And he winds up by saying we shouldn't forget "to assist the people of China in gaining access to the idea of freedom and opposition to tyrannical rule." Idiot.

Could we get somebody in here who can think before they rant?

[ken21]

if lenovo is a threat to our national security,

then, we've got some severe problems!

(/s)