There has been great excitement lately over the possibility of BlackBerry working on some sort of partnership with Xiaomi and Lenovo , but as I covered in a recent Seeking Alpha article, The Difficulties With A BlackBerry Partnership In China , this is very difficult proposition. Chen, who has been managing the company's turnaround for the past year, told Reuters that concerns over information security and the political backlash that security breaches could create dimmed the allure of the world's biggest smartphone market for Blackberry for the time being.