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The Guardian is reporting that the tech war just got hot.
China will be replacing all hardware and software with Chinese equivalents. This is the latest escalation in the US-China tech trade war in response to the US ban on Huawei equipment.
China has ordered that all foreign computer equipment and software be removed from government offices and public institutions within three years, the Financial Times reports.
The government directive is likely to be a blow to US multinational companies like HP, Dell and Microsoft and mirrors attempts by Washington to limit the use of Chinese technology, as the trade war between the countries turns into a tech cold war.
The Trump administration banned US companies from doing business with Chinese Chinese[sic] telecommunications company Huawei earlier this year and in May, Google, Intel and Qualcomm announced they would freeze cooperation with Huawei.
By excluding China from western know-how, the Trump administration has made it clear that the real battle is about which of the two economic superpowers has the technological edge for the next two decades.
China already leads in patents
China's 2016 patent application total is greater than the combined total of patent applications filed in 2016 in the United States (605,571), Japan (318,381), South Korea (208,830) and Europe (159,358). These five jurisdictions accounted for 84 percent of all patent applications filed during 2016.
China has been preparing for an all-out IT war.
In May, Hu Xijin, editor of the Global Times newspaper in China, said the withdrawal of sharing by US tech companies with Huawei would not be fatal for the company because the Chinese firm has been planning for this conflict "for years" and would prompt the company to develop its own microchip industry to rival America's.
"Cutting off technical services to Huawei will be a real turning point in China's overall research and development and use of domestic chips," he said in a social media post. "Chinese people will no longer have any illusions about the steady use of US technology."
US trade policy may have been meant to pressure China, but that move looks to have just forced an acceleration of the loss of software and hardware orders from American suppliers to China.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday December 09 2019, @04:01PM (4 children)
So, does this mean *cough* Microsoft *cough* ?
Woo hoo!
Now if only most of the world could recognize the danger of Microsoft and abandon it. That would leave only 4% of the world population (the US) to suffer with that bloated crapware that new computers are infected with at the factory.
The thing about landline phones is that they never get lost. No air tag necessary.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Monday December 09 2019, @05:19PM
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by tangomargarine on Monday December 09 2019, @05:40PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylin_(operating_system) [wikipedia.org]
Oh, what I was thinking of was North Korea's version. [wikipedia.org] Still, though.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 09 2019, @07:40PM
Without Windows, how will they carry on with creating exploits?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 10 2019, @02:41AM
What will China do without PowerPoint slides?