As BlackBerry Fades, Canada Just Says No to Chinese Investors
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As the list of potential investors who recently considered buying BlackBerry continues to grow, new details are emerging about why one of them—the Beijing tech giant Lenovo—never ended up submitting a formal bid. Turns out Chinese investors are not particularly welcome in Canada.
In recent months, as the Globe & Mail reports, the Canadian government intervened and informed BlackBerry that it would not accept a takeover by any Chinese company due to national security concerns: