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		<title><![CDATA[State rejects privatization of AsiaSat]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3101]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The State Department has rejected a bid by GE and Beijing-controlled Citic Grouptogether to take private Asia Satellite Telecommunications, which operates the AsiaSat satellites, The Financial Times reports.   The State Dept. has veto power over the suggested restructuring because of the Cold War-era US International Traffic in Arms...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:57:05 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Return of Lenovo tempest]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://government.zdnet.com/?p=2288]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in March, the State Dept. was roundly criticized for purchasing 16,000 Lenovo PCs (that's the Chinese company that bought IBM's PC business). At the time we characterized concerns from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission as evidence of isolationist paranoia.   After all, what were the concerns,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2006 14:07:21 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hysteria over State buy of Lenovo PCs a 'drive-by smearing']]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://government.zdnet.com/?p=2197]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ A few weeks back we wrote about a Beltway Brouhaha over the State Dept.'s purchase of 15,000 Lenovo PCs. The problem critics had was that Lenovo is Chinese and they imagined that all kinds of digital moles would be installed in top-secret US locations in DC and around the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:49:41 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lenovo-U.S. State Department PC deal under scrutiny by security commission]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2784]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The BBC reports that the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission USCC, whose members are Congressional appointees, wants to begin an official probe into Lenovo's $13 million contract to sell 16,000 ThinkCentre desktop computers to the U.S. State Department. Why? The Chinese could turn them into remote spys, planting bugging...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2006 06:56:10 -0800</pubDate>
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