The issue focused on what Trump said he would do with the technology.

"It's not about software. It's about hardware. And you can't just take it from China and say, 'Here, we're going to start building computers for you,' " IBM Chief Executive Ginni Rometty told reporters in Washington.

She told reporters that she had seen reports of computer systems being built by computer programmers at companies like IBM in China. But she also noted that computer technologies are sold only