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Sources: ZTE on BusinessWire, Reuters

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No brainer
By augiem on 10/9/2012 1:45:39 PM , Rating: 2
This just shows how disconnected from reality law makers are. If they were worried about this, they should have done something about it 30 years ago! It's too late. EVERYTHING is made there. Every computer and every cell phone in every government office. Blocking a Chinese brand but letting everyone else make their stuff there and sell it here is a thinly veiled attempt at preventing foreign compeition here and nothing more. It's a lie.

This is just like Obama blocking a family-owned wind farm sale to a Chinese company because it's too close to a top secret base. Hmmm... Your base is some super top secret and critical to national security and yet you don't bother claiming enough land around it to make it secure from the outside? And who is to say that American family that owns the farm aren't terrorists spying on the base? It's no security at all if you're going to say we trust Americans simply because they're citizens. It's not about security. It never was. It's purely political and I'm sick of seeing these people get away with their lies.

RE: No brainer
By Ringold on 10/9/2012 9:38:58 PM , Rating: 2
Blocking that windfarm was pure, 100% election season politics. They weren't blocking it on the grounds of it interfering with radar or radio, say, but ownership. Easy enough to verify wind turbines are in fact turbines and not stuffed full of spy gear. The Chinese owner probably just wanted to cash in on some green-energy subsidies, same as anyone else.

But nope, we're a month from an election, and Obama needed a little plug in the weekly news cycle that sounded tough on China. There ya go. America loses a windfarm and sullies our international image to investors, Obama gets maybe 10 extra votes, max. Hooray, politics.

