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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ibnanv" data-source="post: 25000695" data-attributes="member: 218596">Directive is likely to be a blow to US multinational companies like HP, Dell and MicrosoftChina  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 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.This is the first known public directive from Beijing setting  specific targets limiting China’s use of foreign technology, though it  is part a wider move within China to increase its reliance on domestic  technology. The FT reported that  the directive would result in an estimated 20m- to 30m pieces of  hardware needing to be replaced and that this work would begin in 2020.  Analysts told the FT that 30% of substitutions would take place in 2020,  50% in 2021 and 20% in 2022. The order had come from the Chinese Communist party’s central office  earlier this year, the analysts said. Two employees from cyber security  firms told the paper that government clients had described the policy. Replacing all the devices and software in this timeframe will be  challenging, given that many products developed for US operating systems  like Windows for Microsoft. Chinese government offices tend to use  desktop computers from the Chinese-owned company Lenovo, but components  of the computers, including its processor chips and hard drives are made  by American companies.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.”</blockquote>

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