China plans to remove all foreign computer equipment.

Superb. Xi should take it further: tell ppl to get rid of their foreign luxury cars, wines, clothing, watches, shoes, bags & take their kids out of foreign schools. They'll totally worship him for it.
https://t.co/9djq2nwxZG

— Jojo O. ????? (@jojoorbie) December 9, 2019

Funny thing...The ⁦@WorldBank⁩ ONLY uses Lenovo computers! IT’S TIME TO REALIZE THE CCP IS OUR MORTAL ENEMY. #Chinazi ⁦@AmbLiuXiaoMing⁩ ⁦@AmbCuiTiankai⁩ ⁦@RepAGonzalez⁩ ⁦@ChuckGrassley⁩ https://t.co/cldoDQ2WCg

— ?Kyle Bass? (@Jkylebass) December 9, 2019

Don't be surprised then when DoD starts awarding grants to open source developers working on productivity software FOR NO PARTICULAR REASON...https://t.co/OiHNZ2R9wX

— Jake Williams (@MalwareJake) December 9, 2019

China tells government offices to remove all foreign computer equipment | China | The Guardian https://t.co/uh35tLQgKp

— Irvin Jim (@IrvinJimSA) December 9, 2019

China has ordered that all foreign computer equipment and software be removed from government offices and public institutions within three years. Does this mean backdoors will be going open source? https://t.co/U6Jndq3mBN

— Chris Wysopal (@WeldPond) December 9, 2019

Thus giving Trudeau the perfect excuse for prohibiting Huawei, facing allegations of spying and intellectual property theft, from supplying Canada with 5G technology: China tells government offices to remove all foreign computer equipment https://t.co/hgqmQzh0am #cdnpoli

— Lorrie Goldstein (@sunlorrie) December 9, 2019

China tells government offices to remove all foreign computer equipment - The Guardian https://t.co/6oZZbZwJKa

— Michael Ron Bowling (@mrbcyber) December 9, 2019

Remember last week when serial lying con-man Trump said that he was close to a trade deal with China?

As usual, that was total bullsh*t:

China tells government offices to remove all foreign computer equipment.https://t.co/PI17lWLVvY

— Bill Madden (@maddenifico) December 9, 2019

Then the US should order every international organization it is funding to remove all China-made computer equipments, including UN & its subsidiaries.https://t.co/X0EfP0fh35

— BenTallmadge (@BenKTallmadge) December 9, 2019

we were just talking about this yesterday on Sunday with Charles https://t.co/eN5cC7VtbC

— CrowdsourcetheTruth (@csthetruth) December 9, 2019

Well then, that should be the end of any dreams for Indian software/IT companies of making it in China. Not that they were getting anywhere all these years.
It should also now be easy for @PMOIndia to decide Huawei 5G stays out of the Indian market.https://t.co/dj7C722L4I

— Jabin T Jacob 鄭嘉賓 (@jabinjacobt) December 9, 2019

China tells government offices to remove all foreign computer equipment https://t.co/GxMjipjRuA

— Africa Updates (@africaupdates) December 9, 2019

V hoard Chinese made stuff; share personal data thru vain apps like #tiktok; Chinese phones dominate r mobile mkt; r many unicorns r now Chinese directed

Have 2 give it 2 them: They ban & ban. But no 1 (except Trump) has dared 2 cross swords with themhttps://t.co/kXQyzHan2t

— Deepak Kapur (@tapak7) December 9, 2019

The goal is not simply to replace American and European software and operating systems with Chinese equivalents, but the hardware they run on as well.https://t.co/NRXTvkkWqW

— The Grey Man (@IntelOperator) December 9, 2019

"The goal is not simply to replace American and European software and operating systems with Chinese equivalents, but the hardware they run on as well."https://t.co/6dyt0fMUGI

— Guilherme Carlos ? (@gtcarlos_) December 9, 2019

China moves to ban foreign software and hardware from state offices https://t.co/naT2MrzgUF

— Amit Paranjape (@aparanjape) December 9, 2019

China reportedly orders state offices to remove foreign tech which could hit US firms like Microsoft https://t.co/wzJvP3JBOP

— CNBC Tech (@CNBCtech) December 9, 2019

China reportedly orders state offices to remove foreign tech which could hit US firms like Microsoft - https://t.co/BDvL5KKAyt

— Pam #Resist (@mortgageconsult) December 9, 2019

[FT]中国、公的機関で外国製PC・ソフトを排除https://t.co/jD0WxhlHnr

China reportedly orders state offices to remove foreign tech which could hit US firms like Microsofthttps://t.co/kx17uZWvcb pic.twitter.com/m05WgbnSV6

— いつも悩んでる人 (@kackiee) December 9, 2019

Why Europe will choose the US over China https://t.co/FxrcOJ72b8

— FT Emerging Markets (@ftemergingmkts) December 9, 2019

Why Europe will choose the US over China https://t.co/GpBt5uUfqf

— FT China (@ftchina) December 9, 2019

Like I wrote this year, EU countries should better not pick sides in the systemic rivalry btw US & China as long as possible if European countries can‘t remain loyal allies while expanding their relations with China. You can’t have your cake and eat it.https://t.co/K9K4oTJ4YP

— Velina Tchakarova (@vtchakarova) December 9, 2019

The 5G decision is likely to be the first of many awkward choices for Europe. For as long as possible, Europe will try to keep both Washington and Beijing happy. But @gideonrachman predicts the old continent will choose the US over China.
https://t.co/NXJcQ0Ho2u @financialtimes

— Oliver Stuenkel (@OliverStuenkel) December 9, 2019

Why Europe will choose the US over China https://t.co/JHjHAb5yFX

— Financial Times (@FT) December 9, 2019

Gideon Rachman: The EU has belatedly woken up to the fact that China is much more than a large market. It is also an authoritarian state with an increasing influential presence in Europehttps://t.co/tWKxzqLZkl

— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) December 9, 2019

Europe is finally coming around, score one for Trump though sad that it took so much: https://t.co/zWtxNDQNj8

— tylercowen (@tylercowen) December 9, 2019

Why Europe will choose the US over China https://t.co/ANz1d5UnT4

— FT Economics (@fteconomics) December 9, 2019

Gideon Rachman: Why Europe will choose the US over China https://t.co/hAfBkhdZ3J

— FT Opinion (@ftopinion) December 9, 2019

Engadget: China bans all government departments from using US-made technology.https://t.co/b27fQHDtgB

via @GoogleNews

— Lonnie Hicks (@Lnnie) December 9, 2019

China bans all government departments from using US-made technologyhttps://t.co/nAsvsbYc3z

— (((Al​ ????➊​))) (@Gdad1) December 9, 2019

The market's attention is all on deal or no deal.

But there should be no doubt that China maintains a host of discriminatory policies. I have long thought "buy Chinese" import substitution policies should be a bigger U.S. priority for example.https://t.co/9IpuawzsTd

— Brad Setser (@Brad_Setser) December 9, 2019

Back in May, Beijing ordered its military to look into creating a homegrown OS to replace Windows, fearing its military was vulnerable to US hacking

See here: https://t.co/qTsPBPrvYD

Add the Huawei-5G scandals and the US trade tensions on top and you get: https://t.co/8l21m8XpuJ

— Catalin Cimpanu (@campuscodi) December 9, 2019

'Beijing has ordered all government offices and public institutions to remove foreign computer equipment and software within three years echoing efforts by the Trump administration to curb the use of Chinese technology in the US and its allies.' https://t.co/DmKfV0nuMH

— Jesse Felder (@jessefelder) December 9, 2019

First the network gets segmented now the hardware. https://t.co/QsMSOrVD4e

— Mark Ghuneim (@MarkGhuneim) December 9, 2019

We have always been at (trade) war with Eastasia. https://t.co/4U066EpHXB

— Ed Bott (@edbott) December 9, 2019

Probably bullish for Semis & bearish for software including $MSFT. Either way it’s a win as China wont be able to keep up with Western technology development if they shun all western OS & eventually hardware.

https://t.co/lScwzqjhRN

— Greg S. (@GS_CapSF) December 8, 2019

China tells government offices to remove all foreign computer equipment
Directive is likely to be a blow to US multinational companies like HP, Dell and Microsofthttps://t.co/0mUIWeCaKP

— Charles Mok 莫乃光 (@charlesmok) December 9, 2019

This further isolates China? https://t.co/1WPHeDpQTs

— alex (@alex) December 9, 2019

This actually won't be that big a problem for China. Pirated Windows is already considered domestic software https://t.co/BGw1ACRVJh

— Evil Forces Balding (@BaldingsWorld) December 8, 2019

US-China decoupling in motion...

Beijing orders state offices to replace foreign PCs and software https://t.co/yLUD1kZR2x via @financialtimes

— Nouriel Roubini (@Nouriel) December 8, 2019

Beijing orders gov't agencies to replace foreign PCs and software: No surprise with Trump's toxic trade war. And, given the grey area of SOEs and PRC private sector the impact may be quite broad. A step backward.

Exc piece @yuanfenyang Nian Liu @ftchinahttps://t.co/3fsB04h4YM

— James M Zimmerman (@jmzbeijing) December 8, 2019

?$SPX Beijing orders all government offices and public institutions to remove foreign PC equipment and software within three years, allowing only Chinese-made tech via @Techmeme
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My take:

* China may fall further behind
* Chips may be OK
* A lot of unknowns = not good news

— Ophir Gottlieb (@OphirGottlieb) December 9, 2019

In case you were thinking tech-nationalism is just a temporary side-show in China: https://t.co/FErOOpPsTZ

— Kontra (@counternotions) December 9, 2019

Beijing's been pushing in this direction for a long time, but this is the first time it's laid down orders to govt agencies with measurable targets. The goal is clear: to lessen the harm of future US sanctions, says @pstAsiatech. Our @FT scoop https://t.co/nRhO6VfMn7

— Yuan Yang (@YuanfenYang) December 9, 2019

This has nothing to do with decoupling obviously and is similar to Buy American Act. But certain to roil relations with EU which wanted to open Chinese public procurement, not close it furtherhttps://t.co/Hk1ABMgwlS

— Bruno Maçães (@MacaesBruno) December 9, 2019

China bans all government departments from using US-made technology https://t.co/uAcuNRZa82 via @engadget

— Onyx Paradigm⚡️????⚡️ (@C_Rich75) December 9, 2019

China’s Massive Microsoft Gut-Punch Won’t Hurt MSFT Bull Run https://t.co/Hvhf2bR7jf

— CCN Markets (@CCNMarkets) December 9, 2019

The new Techno-Cold War ? China tells government offices to remove all foreign computer equipment. Directive is likely to be a blow to US multinational companies like HP, Dell and Microsoft @piscitelli https://t.co/iDVM2NC7Tu

— Carlos A. Scolari (@cscolari) December 10, 2019

The speed of deglobalisation is amazinghttps://t.co/Gnz8S0GCYf

— Eddie Deadmayne (@dcntrrr) December 9, 2019

China tells government offices to remove all foreign computer equipment. This seems like a very significant development to me.

Via ⁦@Etienne_greeff⁩ https://t.co/2SiRnDJkOH

— Charl van der Walt (@charlvdwalt) December 10, 2019

This is getting fascinating. I'll admit, I'm rather excited to hear about the R&D that will go into chips and other components https://t.co/2fNgmP9Nc1

— Daniel Cuthbert (@dcuthbert) December 10, 2019

Better late than never.

Meanwhile, in the "IT Superpower", government offices still use Microsoft Windows running on foreign hardware. https://t.co/Q6zEtTMUFF

— Maitreya Bhakal (@MaitreyaBhakal) December 9, 2019

More "winning". https://t.co/eh1au3s92F

— Vive la résistance !!! (@MarvinDigeorgio) December 9, 2019

An eye for an eye!

China tells government offices to remove all foreign computer equipment https://t.co/zvvtcDR7XP

— mmatigari (@matigary) December 9, 2019

China tells government offices to remove all foreign computer equipment.

In Africa, a ministry copies all OECD/IMF's structural reforms programme like the one that drowned Greece as "an economic strategy" for South Africa. @CyrilRamaphosa @TreasuryRSA
https://t.co/p4BFOS5Tps

— nkhosi.... (@redgenkosi) December 9, 2019

China moves to ban foreign software and hardware from state offices https://t.co/TSHEQbk52H

— Micro E-mini Asia-Pacific (@AsiaPacificStks) December 10, 2019

Global tech continues to fragment. Great powers will continue to seek sovereignty in the era of undeclared cyber-warfare. https://t.co/kmcL8943aS

— Samo Burja (@SamoBurja) December 10, 2019

China moves to ban foreign software and hardware from state offices

>China has reportedly ordered all foreign PC hardware and operating systems to be replaced in the next three years, intensifying an ongoing tech war.

まじかよｗｗhttps://t.co/t1zfkfVBhc

— 石井悠夏 Haruka ishii (@gorillaPoweeeer) December 10, 2019

Chinese equivalents to Windows and Android have nowhere near the level of maturity or support to easily swap them out https://t.co/bJtIB1juMc via @techcrunch

— Michael Ron Bowling (@mrbcyber) December 9, 2019

Can #China survive without western #technology?

What do you think?@richardturrin @leimer @efipm @UrsBolt@Xbond49 @psb_dc#innovationhttps://t.co/OGqaFQzeWQ

— Arunkumar Krishnakumar (@Karunk) December 9, 2019

China reportedly orders state offices to remove foreign tech which could hit US firms like Microsoft https://t.co/ivklgENpGg

— Evan Kirstel (@evankirstel) December 9, 2019

Gideon Rachman: The EU has belatedly woken up to the fact that China is much more than a large market. It is also an authoritarian state with an increasing influential presence in Europehttps://t.co/vcuWGQgOcO

— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) December 10, 2019

Any other choice would be crazy. Why Europe will choose the US over China https://t.co/RywD5LAb6W via @financialtimes

— Francis Fukuyama (@FukuyamaFrancis) December 9, 2019

Similar to my view on how this is likely to play out. Bifurcation on 5G and some tech likely, managed interdependence in many other areas. #geoeconomics. ⁦@choermoraes⁩ ⁦@geoffreygertz⁩ https://t.co/14NiuK4zDI

— Anthea Roberts (@AntheaERoberts) December 10, 2019

Better late than never.

"The #EU has belatedly woken up to the fact that #China is much more than a large market. It is also an authoritarian state with an increasing influential presence in #Europe."https://t.co/l1eWEUdb7j

— Guy Plopsky (@GuyPlopsky) December 10, 2019

.@gideonrachman ventures that "if America's key allies, such as Britain and Germany, are forced to choose, then values, economics, security and strategy will all point in the same direction. They will have to choose the US over China." https://t.co/pwbR8JTw9f

— Ali Wyne (@Ali_Wyne) December 9, 2019

"Why Europe will choose the US over China" https://t.co/2kgR00K1zC. @gideonrachman @ftopinion

— Arturo Sarukhan (@Arturo_Sarukhan) December 9, 2019

Why Europe will choose the US over China -by @gideonrachman https://t.co/0GNNTt3IGW vía @financialtimes

— Felipe Sahagún (@sahagunfelipe) December 9, 2019

I don’t think the question is whether Europe will join China voluntarily. It’s whether it will join “involuntarily”https://t.co/9ze8zUUli1

— Bruno Maçães (@MacaesBruno) December 9, 2019

China bans all government departments from using US-made technology https://t.co/8yOTA37YkQ

— Evan Kirstel (@evankirstel) December 9, 2019

China bans all government departments from using US-made technologyhttps://t.co/WFVlNuPatH

— robi sen (@robi_sen) December 10, 2019

China bans all government departments from using US-made technology https://t.co/RRuyo8lYxJ

— Lysette (@LowCarbLoving) December 10, 2019

Cold War 2.0 is heating up I see. Mike Bloomberg must be upset. https://t.co/2uCnaNcKFQ

— Luis (@luismen1991) December 10, 2019