"This obviously is something we have been worrying about, " said Huang Ying, IBM China Research Lab associate director who leads one of the company's cloud computing projects in China.

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Novartis does have a big research lab in China, but this is partly because the company wants to participate in the science going on there.

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One place where Microsoft has opened a research lab is China.

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For example, while moving Shenzhou-9 towards the space lab, the flight plan called for five orbital corrections, but the team on the ground in China was able to accomplish it in four.

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