Lenovo's participation in a cybersecurity initiative has reopened old questions over the company's China origins, especially in light of the growing mistrust between Washington and Beijing over technology.
Last week, Lenovo announced to the world that it is now involved in the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC) initiative, which was established by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to enlist private sector help in addressing threats to US critical infrastructure.
On the face of it, there is nothing unusual in that. Lenovo is the biggest PC supplier in the world, with figures from market researchers putting its market share at almost a quarter of global sales.
Yet Lenovo is also a Chinese company, founded in Beijing 40 years ago as Legend and now registered in Hong Kong. It gained greater market access partly thanks to its acquisition of IBM's PC division with its iconic Thinkpad laptops in 2005, then picked up Big Blue's x86 server business nearly a decade later in 2014.
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