I spy spies

摘要

Nothing gets a politician's juices flowing like a good scare story. Following the decline of offshoring as a hot issue on the stump, America's Republicans have latched on to a new one: national security. After taking "our" jobs, is China now sending us its spies? Three senior Republican Congressmen are lobbying against the proposed $1.75 billion purchase of IBM'S personal-computer business by Lenovo, China's largest PC maker. They claim that it will allow the Chinese government to acquire sensitive American technology and, potentially, use IBM'S facilities to spy for the Chinese armed forces. In a letter to the treasury secretary, John Snow, the trio wrote that the deal "may transfer advanced us technology and corporate assets to the Chinese government". Lenovo's parent company was founded, and is still controlled, by the Chinese Academy of Science.