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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 09 2019, @04:54PM (10 children)
I have it on very good authority that trade wars are good and easy to win! See? [twitter.com]
Unsurprisingly, articles like this prove that China is playing an entirely different game than we are. Not the first time this has happened to the United States. Trump is trying to play checkers (can't say he's smart enough for chess), and the Chinese are playing xiangqi or if we're lucky weiqi.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 09 2019, @05:14PM (2 children)
He's not smart enough to play checkers either.
(Score: 3, Funny) by barbara hudson on Monday December 09 2019, @05:22PM (1 child)
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Wednesday December 11 2019, @12:58AM
The Pogo comic once had a checkers game in which the checkers were cookies. You tended to lose if you ate your own cookies.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 09 2019, @06:56PM (4 children)
No, Trump's entire purpose was to destabilize the US. It has become painfully clear he is a Russian asset, willingly or not. He has no morals, he has no loyalty, this has been easily observed to anyone paying attention to his actions rather than his twatter feed.
People will cry/laugh in the coming years wondering how the fuck the country as a whole didn't kick that fat hyena out.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by HiThere on Monday December 09 2019, @07:17PM (1 child)
I *suspect* he's a Russian agent, whether willingly or not. (Possibly willingly, as he appears to love dictators.) But he could just be a stupid egomaniac who was raised as a gang boss.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday December 10 2019, @02:12AM
He's a stupid egomaniac, and probably doesn't realize the extent to which he's being used as a Russian agent- and definitely enough of an egomaniac to not care when people point it out to him. He wants to be tough like a gang boss, he wants people to like him, but after 70 years of being a clueless blowhard clown, I think he's pretty comfortable with his foot being so far in his mouth that he can scratch his vocal cords with his toes.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/17/will-russia-ukraine-war-end
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 09 2019, @08:55PM
Regarding destabilization: It's the fucking Jews. It's always the Jews. As for Russia: we should be allying with them. We will need their help with the Mongoloids.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 10 2019, @02:37PM
And then they will remember that the alternative was Hillary. There is no winning move.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday December 10 2019, @02:08AM (1 child)
The Chinese play 圍棋 (Weiqi) a game of patience, calculation, and careful expansion.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/17/will-russia-ukraine-war-end
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @05:56AM
lol yes these patient cautious long-game players certainly are not crazy gamblers, they're investors.