Eased Rules on Tech Sales to China Questioned
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Experts are concerned that some high-tech exports could help China modernize its military.
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By Joseph Kahn New York Times News Service  BEIJING -- China imposed broad new restrictions Sunday on the distribution of foreign news in the country, beefing up state regulations on the news media.
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The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC)&#160;said it will investigate whether Qualcomm is complying with a ban that prohibits it from importing certain chips into the U.S.The investigation is the result of a complaint that Broadcom filed with the U.S. ITC. Qualcomm is importing chips that employ a work-around of a Broadcom patent that the court ruled Qualcomm infringes. Broadcom alleges that the new technology also infringes its patent.The investigation is the latest chapter in a long-running dispute between the two chip companies. In July, the ITC ruled that Qualcomm was infringing on Broadcom patents. In a very rare decision,&#160;the ITC forbade the import of phones that included future versions of certain Qualcomm chips rather than all the offending chips because the commission decided that would have unduly damaged the economy.However,&#160;the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has since stayed that ruling.One attorney suspects that Broadcom&#39;s most recent complaint to the ITC is an effort to essentially overrule the appeals&#39; court stay.&quot;This enforcement proceeding represents a crafty way for Broadcom to get around the court&#39;s stay and go directly to the ITC to give some teeth to the remedy provided by the ITC,&quot; said Lyle Vander Schaaf, an attorney at Bryan Cave and a former ITC attorney.If the commission decides in Broadcom&#39;s favor, Qualcomm could face millions of dollars in penalties, he said.Broadcom said it is seeking fines and additional orders against Qualcomm.
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If you invest in China, do so with caution.
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The iPhone can be bought in China, even though Apple Inc. isn't selling it there and the gadget doesn't function properly despite costing twice as much as in the United States.
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Frank Hsieh, the candidate of Taiwan&#39;s ruling Democratic Progressive Party in next March&#39;s presidential election, pledged Tuesday to loosen regulations covering the transfer of Taiwanese technology to China.Taiwanese companies face various hurdles in moving their operations to China and typically have to receive government approval before making chip investments on the mainland. The two nations separated in 1949 amid civil war, and Beijing has long threatened the use of force to take the island if it moves towards formal independence.Intel and other non-Taiwanese chip-makers investing in China face fewer administrative barriers.&quot;The degree of regulation is a problem so in terms of technology transfer I would like to loosen it if I become president and make it as loose as Intel,&quot; Hsieh said at a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents&#39; Club of Japan in Tokyo.The exchange of chip-making technology to China is a hot issue in Taiwan, whose economy is influenced by major semiconductor makers.In October the founder and former chairman of United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC), the world&#39;s second largest contract chip maker, were found not guilty of investing in and transferring technology to a Chinese chip maker. Earlier in the year a Taipei court overturned an NT$5 million (US$154,000) fine against UMC over the same deal with He Jian Technology (Suzhou) Co. Ltd.Taiwan&#39;s presidential election is scheduled to take place on March 22, 2008.
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The U.S. Commerce Department could  change proposed export controls aimed at making it harder for  China to modernize its military, but has no intention of  scrapping the plan, a U.S. official said on Thursday.
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China is ready to reduce tariffs and drop barriers for foreign products to enter its market next year, China Radio International reported Tuesday.
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BEIJING  - China should let its companies choose the technology standards they use, a U.S. official said Thursday, renewing Washington's campaign against moves by the Chinese government to set its own national telecommunications standards.
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China is ratcheting up pressure for the lifting of its EU arms embargo to remove the stigma of sanctions but also because it needs the technology to upgrade its existing systems, analysts say.
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Dec. 8 -- During an IBM employee meeting here Wednesday, a worker got up and asked a question that perhaps only 10 years ago would have been unthinkable: If he wanted to keep his job helping to design some of the world's most advanced computers, would he have to move to China?
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BEIJING -- Just last month, China announced plans to buy $4.3 billion of U.S. technology as a way to show how serious it is about reducing the ballooning trade gap with the U.S.
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China&#39;s anti-monopoly law is likely to  be passed next week, after over a decade of wrangling, but may  require national security checks for foreign firms that want to  buy Chinese rivals, domestic media said on Saturday.
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Opinion in China remains divided on whether the government is leaping into deals without a clear investment strategy.
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Concerns about national security and technology transfer are being raised by rumors of Chinese interest in acquiring an American disk drive maker.
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The move is expected to dampen prospects for companies that have focused on taking advantage of the Chinese market.
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(InfoWorld) - Is DellÂ ready to abandon its direct sales model to boost its prospects in China? The company says no. Several Chinese media outlets recently reported Dell is in talks to buy Chinese PC maker Founder Technology Group, citing a report by a Chinese newspaper, National Business Daily. The newspaper did not name its source and appears to have removed at least one related story, published on Dec. 15, from its Web site. A Dell acquisition of Founder would leave the U.S. PC vendor with a nationwide network of retail shops in China, ending its long-standing reliance on direct sales. Sharon Zhang, a spokeswoman for Dell China, declined to comment on the acquisition reports, but said the company has no plans to change its direct sales model. "We are committed to the direct sales model in China," Zhang said. Founder executives in Beijing could not immediately be reached for comment. During 2005, Founder was the second-largest PC vendor in China with 12.3 percent of the market, according to industry analyst IDC. The company trailed Lenovo Group, which held 32.8 percent of the market, and managed to stay one step ahead of Dell, which was the largest foreign PC vendor in the country, with an 8.8 percent share of the market, IDC said. While rumors of Dell's interest circulate, Chinese media reported that at least one Chinese company is interested in Founder. The China Business News newspaper reported Monday that Haier Corp. was in talks to acquire Founder, citing an inside source at the consumer electronics and whitegoods producer based in Qingdao, northern China. Haier could not be reached for comment.