China is in the position with service and distribution contracts acquired with the IBM purchase to now has access to eating the US lunch in manufacturing computers and more importantly COMPUTER SOFTWARE and OPERATING SYSTEMS. The next large money making in road.
China can write code cheaper and in some cases better than US Computer Programmers. Once they own a large market share in computer manufacturing, one way to LOWER the price to be competitive is to offer cheap operating systems and software to be run on their cheap computers.
When this happens, the service industry will quickly be in the control, absolutely; in the south east hemisphere.
Do you know how easy it is to leave a back door open when writing code? Do you think a country which does not honor current copyright laws will think twice about enforcing privacy issues?
This transaction puts the US in jeopardy on many levels including national security.