But the successful purchase of IBM's PC computer arm by Chinese computer company Lenovo shows another model.
Testimony Monday before a government commission assessing Chinese computer capabilities underscored the dangers.
Chinese computer hackers have recently disabled Mr Koizumi's website.
American William Amelio was hired with much fanfare in late 2005 to take charge of Chinese computer giant Lenovo--and integrate that company's acquisition of ibm's mammoth but moneylosing PC business.
As the Endpoint guy, I pay attention to the outer fringe of the connection, and for that reason a new offering from Lenovo, the Chinese computer company, caught my eye.
The Olympics have 12 main sponsors, from Kodak, which backed the first modern games in 1896, and Coca-Cola, part of the show since 1928, to Lenovo, a Chinese computer company that signed up in 2005.
McAfee recently announced that botnet-building malware discovered during its investigation into the Google attacks in December, 2009 and January, 2010 is not part of the alleged Chinese computer network exploitation (CNE) operation as originally believed.
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Motorola's news follows similar announcements by Chinese computer maker Lenovo, which is building a manufacturing plant in North Carolina, and Apple, which has said it will begin manufacturing a Mac computer in the U.S. this year.
"Lenovo delivered another terrific quarter, with shipment growth of 32.9% compared to the same period in 2009, " read the report, which noted that the Chinese computer maker had achieved year-over-year shipment growth in excess of 30% for every 2010 quarter.
On his most recent trip, he stopped in Shenzhen to confirm that he had lined up nearly every major Chinese computer manufacturer behind his company's "Venus project, " a combination of software and hardware that lets VCD players and other, similar devices display Chinese-language Internet content on an ordinary TV set.
Apple owns 79.3% of the Chinese tablet computer market, compared to just 5.1% for rival Samsung, according to IDC.
According to those who have followed the attack at the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center, a cybersecurity crisis response organization, the infection tool is partially written in Chinese characters and compiled on a computer with Chinese language settings.
"Chinese capabilities in computer network operations have advanced sufficiently to pose genuine risk to U.S. military operations in the event of a conflict, " the report said.
And 5 years from now when a significant percentage of the Chinese population can afford a personal computer, I have a hunch that it will be Chinese computers, rather than imported American computers, that will be their computer of choice.
Note: Chinese businesses such as computer brand Lenovo, e-commerce leader Alibaba, telecom hardware giant Huawei, and auto parts maker Wanxiang have looked in recent years to tap into the U.S. marketplace and resources.
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In one such incident in 2010, a group of Chinese hackers breached the computer defenses of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a major business lobbying group, and gained access to everything stored on its systems, including information about its three million members, according to several people familiar with the matter.
U.S. intelligence officials have grown increasingly alarmed about what they believe to be Chinese and Russian surveillance of computer systems that control the electric grid and other U.S. infrastructure.
Analysts say that Chinese scientists have benefited from training at top computer centers in the U.S. and Europe and the availability of computer chips and other parts from abroad, as well as consistent Chinese government funding and support.
The latter trains computer scientists for the Chinese military and is reported to have ties to Baidu, the dominant search engine in China.
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Microsoft has teamed up with ten manufacturers, including Legend, China's largest computer maker, to market Chinese Palm PCs.
Computer coding systems convert most Chinese pictorial characters for printing, but some are so rare that they are never assigned a code.
Yang is the highest-level Chinese official so far to respond to the criticism surrounding Chinese hackers attacking U.S. computer systems, which was confirmed by Alexandria, Va. based internet security firm Mandiant last month a Washington Post piece saying they traced a host of cyber attacks to an IP address in Shanghai.
The YouTube video shows some of the various standard applications that come with the XO-1: Firefox, an unnamed instant messaging program, a variant of Abiword (word processing), and an application called eToys that looks like a combination of traditional computer games (such as Chinese Checkers) combined with something resembling the children's art program Kid Pix.
November 2006: Chinese hackers attack the US Naval War College computer infrastructure, possibly targeting war game information on the networks.
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The country accounts for 20% of personal computer and handset demand and the Chinese consumer, Credit Suisse says, is very price sensitive.
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Computer-security firms that track Chinese cyberspying groups say that one of the roughly 20 groups they know about appears to specialize in the media industry.
The owner of a computer shop says he and other Chinese shopkeepers had handed over a large sum of money to the army just before the riots.
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The Chinese bribery allegations against the Journal arose around the time that U.S. and Dow Jones officials believed Chinese hackers were targeting Dow Jones's computer systems, according to people familiar with the matter.
"In China we are jealous of our HR co-workers in the U.S., " where online recruiting platforms are more mature and can attract qualified candidates, said Willa Wang, talent acquisition director at Lenovo China, the Chinese unit of Hong Kong-based personal computer company Lenovo Group Ltd.
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