<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sargun</author><text>US companies operate as individual entities. Our government doesn&amp;#x27;t have end-to-end control over commerce.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lispm</author><text>The US continues to puzzle me.&lt;p&gt;China is seen as aggressor in Cyberwar, Chinese hard- and software is accused of having security problems, there are lots of discussions about the more aggressive role of China in Asia, the US has a huge trade deficit with China, China is accused of spying, ...&lt;p&gt;But the US continues to sell its companies and its business to China and imports stuff from there more and more.&lt;p&gt;Does the US have an idea what to do to balance the relationship - besides sending the Navy or let bomber airplanes fly over disputed areas?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/27/us-china-defense-usa-idUSBRE9AP0X320131127&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;27&amp;#x2F;us-china-defense-u...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Note the US government needs to approve such deals:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-14/make-it-easier-for-china-to-buy-u-s-businesses.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2013-02-14&amp;#x2F;make-it-easier-for-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lenovo Agrees to Buy IBM Server Business for $2.3 Billion</title><url>http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/23/lenovo-buys-ibm-server-business-for-2-3-billion/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s irritating to me is that many of the people who claim to be pro-national security and defense cheerlead the whole process of outsourcing our sovereignty piecemeal to China.</text><parent_chain><item><author>lispm</author><text>The US continues to puzzle me.&lt;p&gt;China is seen as aggressor in Cyberwar, Chinese hard- and software is accused of having security problems, there are lots of discussions about the more aggressive role of China in Asia, the US has a huge trade deficit with China, China is accused of spying, ...&lt;p&gt;But the US continues to sell its companies and its business to China and imports stuff from there more and more.&lt;p&gt;Does the US have an idea what to do to balance the relationship - besides sending the Navy or let bomber airplanes fly over disputed areas?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/27/us-china-defense-usa-idUSBRE9AP0X320131127&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;27&amp;#x2F;us-china-defense-u...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Note the US government needs to approve such deals:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-14/make-it-easier-for-china-to-buy-u-s-businesses.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2013-02-14&amp;#x2F;make-it-easier-for-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lenovo Agrees to Buy IBM Server Business for $2.3 Billion</title><url>http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/23/lenovo-buys-ibm-server-business-for-2-3-billion/</url></story>