The Threat

Of one day being without computers, except Lenovo ones, and maybe have to rely on an abacus again or even a Japanese human calculator... IBM has a long history of being in connivance with the despotic State and has served enough dictatorships for money... Who else needs a mainframe these days? Not many. So it is within their logic to get rid of the Personal Computing Division. For big business it is much too troublesome to deal with individual private customers. A central dictatorship like China is more convenient. Government never lacks cash like the private individuals whom it takes it from by force. Like Microsoft also they are hangers-on of government departments.

A comment today by John Zube:

The Communist Regime of Mainland China still claims Taiwan as part of China. Couldn't France and Germany similarly e.g. claim England? Or could not the "united" European mainland people similarly claim "England" and Ireland as their "own"?

The territorial unity, collective sovereignty and "representative" power spleen is still in full swing.

Taiwan, I wish you luck against IGM, International Government Machines...