Someone toned the title down just a smidge from the original, which is still in the URL: > another-reason-to-hate-the-nsa-china-is-backing-away-from-us-tech-br

Someone toned the title down just a smidge from the original, which is still in the URL: > another-reason-to-hate-the-nsa-china-is-backing-away-from-us-tech-brands Anyways, the equation also isn't that simple. The "black" budget of the US is $50-$60 billion a year. A significant portion of that is on tech, especially with the NSA. You don't store exabytes and have the world's most powerful supercomputers without buying a lot of hardware. I'm not saying there isn't damage done, but this is just clickbait. It's light on specifics (outside of Cisco), and some of the issues have nothing to do with the NSA. HP is struggling in China because China is favoring local companies. China has had a history of backing away from foreign companies to bring tech in-house. This is actually what the original, non-filtered-through-zdnet article says: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/25/us-china-tech-exclusive-idUSKBN0LT1B020150225 http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/25/us-china-tech-excl... The Reuters article has far more information. The ZDnet article is just someone filling their allotted articles for the day.