Posted on 03/24/2006 9:28:32 AM PST by VU4G10
U.S. State Department purchase of more than 15,000 computers produced by Lenovo Group, a company controlled by the Chinese government, is starting to draw criticism in the latest sign of American unease about the role of foreign companies in the American economy..
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Huh...so much for the "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" dictum...
That's the point - it's not IBM any more. You could argue that many of the components are built in China anyway, but the biggest margin is on finished product - which is going straight into the pocket of Communists.
By the time the frog notices the water is boiling, it is too late for it to jump out of the pot.
Ask Michael Dell what he would do for this business.
Ask Michael Dell where his computers are built ... :^)
Good old Texas?
World Communism has lots of friends in both parties.
Looks like that already happened about six exits back.
Dell and Gateway laptops are made in China...THE Lenovo/IBM laptops will be made in NC and Mexico
Again the author misses the boat like so many others. People are uneasy about foriegn Goverments involement in the US. Especially when there are other alternatives.
Like DHL and T-Mobile (both with some German Gov't control)
Dell's primary assemblies are manufactured in (gasp!) China. Dell hires cheap US labor to assemble these into the finished product; a "do you want fries with that" business model.
The admin just deleted a thread titled "U.S. Hiring Hong Kong Firm to Check Cargo for Nukes" and claimed it was a duplicate of THIS thread. It is NOT a duplicate thread, it is a separate article.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/3/23/173950.shtml?s=lh
You are smarter than the average freeper. The profits here go to the Chinese. Buy from Dell or Gateway or HP and I'll bet most of the shareholders are Americans. Thus profits would go to Americans.
YES- most computer components are Chinese but many are Malaysian and other Asian nations. Korea makes great LCD monitors in Korea w/ some production outsourced to Asian nations
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1st of November 2005, 15:59 GMT
Korean electronics giant Samsung will start producing commercially a new line of LCD panels. This new production line should become active as of April, next year. With this new factory put to use, Samsung hopes that the price for LCD panels will decrease even more.
The new factory is situated in Tangjung, South Korea, next to a similar factory that began operating this April and is owned by S-LCD, joint venture of Samsung and Sony. Similar to like this factory, the new line of production will focus on 40-inch and 46-inch LCD panels for television sets.
As it will go literally into production, this new factory will process around 45,000 sheets of mother glass per month, but gradually, the production will reach processing double that quantity. This will most likely happen when phase two of the facility comes online in the second half of 2006.
Samsung has invested $2.3 billion in phase one production on its new line and will invest a further $1.7 billion in bringing phase two on stream, according to the company.
Is everyone asleep at the wheel in the Bush administration these days or just those mentally deficient individuals making all the really key decisions that can come back and bite them in the ass? If they're trying to make it hard for the GOP in November they're doing a good job.
15,000 computers for the state department.....coming from China....nope, won't be any covert applications hidden on an of those hard drives. Idiots.
They don't need a shakeup in the administration, they need an earthquake.
Before Airborne Express was bought out by DHL was it owned by Americans.
"mother glass"? What exactly is that? Does it reproduce itself?
Re No Vo ... They should be forces to use Chinese labels, so that the average dumbsh#$ can tell where he's buying his laptop from. The average dumbsh#$ does not known Re No Vo is a Chinese company (same deal with Haier).
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