According to official figures, there are now more than 250, 000 personal computers in China with connections to the Internet, and 1, 000 service-providers.

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Sure, Lenovo's computers are made in China.

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Tech tracker IDC estimates 2.5 million tablet computers will be sold in China this year.

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And does anybody in their right mind think that exporting computers to China is a growth industry?

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Last year, a handful of U.S. companies of all sizes said they were moving at least some manufacturing out of China and bringing it to the U.S. Apple CEO Tim Cook said it would produce some Mac computers in the U.S. this year instead of China.

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Six years later, she started selling other companies' computers and soon was responsible for half of Compaq's sales in China--the company's largest agent in the country.

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They build AOL into their computers, so we can extend access to the internet to more people in China and in Asia.

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After Japan and America, China is the world's biggest market for computers, in large part because parents are anxious to give their children every advantage they can.

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In China the company's designs even show up in some desktop computers.

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Now multiply that process by the hundreds of other similarly ubiquitous devices and gadgets: computers, Blu-Ray devices, and every other product that is designed in the United States and assembled in China from components made in the United States and elsewhere.

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