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from the year-of-the-linux-desktop-in-China-by-2023 dept.
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: 5, Interesting) by HiThere on Monday December 09 2019, @07:28PM
No. China is not and has not been Communist. It's a complex oligarchy, and probably more like a revived Mandrinate with an Emperor who has had his powers trimmed back considerably. Whether or not he's a figurehead would require more knowledge than I have to determine. It's got a bit of Communist rhetoric to replace the Confucian rhetoric, but that doesn't make it a Communist government any more than the prior government was Confucist.
There is a difference now that the peasantry is given at least lip service consideration. And often more. But it's consideration of "the good of the people" rather than "the good of this individual person". This may be quite reasonable, as governments are quite bad at helping most individuals, and frequently succeed when they try to help most people. Consider the difference between "work to eliminate polio" and "work to give each person who needs it a heart transplant". (OK, that's not a good example. But I don't think there *can* be a good example, the only things they have in common is that they require lots of resources and they help at least some people. Yellow fever might be a better example than polio, but it's more distant [and I'm not sure it would be better].)
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