Chinese company Lenovo is a global brand with its business concern spanning various aspects of the tech industry. The company’s presently the biggest laptop brand globally. Thus, the company is seen as a major target in the US/China trade war. Thus, Lenovo’s posture in the face of the entire Huawei imbroglio was often questioned. Before now, the company has maintained relative silence regarding the dispute but not anymore. Lenovo’s latest actions suggest a show of solidarity to China.
The company’s official Weibo account which hitherto had the name “Lenovo” was renamed to “Lenovo China” recently. While the change may not really make any meaning to anyone outside China since Weibo is relatively a Chinese platform, the timing of the change raises some eyebrow. Apart from the name adjustment, the company recently released a promotional video extolling the technological exploits of China. Lenovo thinks China is the world’s future in terms of innovation.
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Before now, the brand had quietly moved its smartphone division and some other businesses out of China, choosing instead to launch phones under the Moto brand. That was short lived as the company had in recent times launched topnotch models under the Lenovo brand. The company did explain that with its international acquisitions, one of which is Motorola, it inherited a number of factories overseas. Thus, it was cheaper producing in those factories instead of shipping from China and paying high tariffs and duties. However, Lenovo Group announced in May that it will invest 300 million US dollars to build a new smart manufacturing plant in Shenzhen, which is projected to be completed in 2-3 years. Lenovo stressed that the new base in Shenzhen will form an iron triangle with two other manufacturing bases in Wuhan and Hefei, accelerating China’s smart manufacturing.
As for Lenovo’s latest antics of identifying with China and promoting its technology, we don’t see how it will affect its global business, especially in the US. The US government may decide to go after Lenovo if Huawei’s sanctions fail to make China succumb.
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