@ryo @Misato "because what is the CCP going to do about us here in Japan?"
Invade and take over after the west collapses and there is no more need to pretend to be afraid of retaliation? There is little difference, though. The CCP was basically created by the CIA. But still, you should avoid giving money to China as much as you possibly can, because even the Chinese population itself is on off-charts levels of evil, and if they do use force to invade certain countries, they are going to use China to do it, maybe even disguised as a UN army.

The good thing about the right old ThinkPad models is that you can legitimately run nothing but free software on them. Intel Management Engine? Removed. Proprietary BIOS? Gone. Also, no real contribution to China at all because they are used hardware, so the damage is already done. China has already been paid by however bought them in the late 2000s. And the damage will not be done again, because computers like that may never be made again. Certainly not by Lenovo. With the exception of Raptor's POWER9 systems, that are fully free. And hopefully some RISC-V computers in the future, because let's face it, these ThinkPads are not going to last forever.