Want China Times, Staff Reporter 2015-03-25
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IBM's France headquarters at La Defense, Paris. (File photo/CFP) |
IBM and
China's Beijing Teamsun Technology recently announced their partnership
allowing the latter to develop and sell domestic innovation products based on
IBM's technologies — a move seen as disturbing for the US government,
Shanghai-based outlet the Paper reports.
The Obama
administration has been wary of the information security component in the draft
of China's anti-terrorism law, and IBM's cooperation with a Chinese enterprise
in handing over source codes will make the US government even more unhappy.
IBM will be
open to Chinese enterprises, not only to share its designs with them but also
to help them carry out design work on next-generation microchips, said Wang
Yang, IBM senior vice president and general manager of its China Development
Center, on March 21.
A day
earlier, IBM and Teamsun jointly announced their cooperation program, with
Teamsun agreeing to develop domestic innovation products based on IBM's
technologies.
Last
November, the two sides reached an agreement on data banks, with IBM
authorizing Teamsun to use Informix software source codes.
According
to foreign media reports, US trade bodies led by the American Chamber of
Commerce in the past filed letters to the Chinese and the US governments
respectively, calling for Beijing to postpone implementation of network
supervisory rules and asking the US government to respond to the Chinese
government on related rules.
On March 2,
President Obama said in an interview with Reuters that the new rules crafted by
Beijing would be unfavorable to US tech companies and called for China to
change its policy.
IBM said
its move is not intended in response to the new Chinese government policy; it
said it is seeking a win-win situation allowing more people to understand and
apply IBM's technologies.
Wang said
IBM's opening is fully market-oriented, focusing on Chinese enterprises as
China has the demand and a massive market. IBM also wishes to establish an
industry ecosystem so that the cooperation will accelerate related development.
Beijing has
cited the Edward Snowden revelations of US government surveillance as leverage
to present foreign tech companies as potential threats to information security
and to emphasize the domestic production of IT equipment. However, China trails
behind in developing domestic operating systems, middleware, and high-end
servers.
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