{"id":27390,"date":"2019-12-11T16:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=27390"},"modified":"2019-12-11T16:00:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T16:00:20","slug":"chinese-govt-ban-all-foreign-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/chinese-govt-ban-all-foreign-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese gov't directs removal of all foreign computer hardware in 3 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chinese government has issued a directive that all government offices and public institutions should remove foreign computer equipment and software within the next three years.<\/strong>
\nThe move follows a similar ban in the United States, where the Trump administration blocked US companies from business dealings with Chinese technology giant Huawei<\/a> and ZTE.
\nThis ban is the first publicly known instruction with specific targets given to Chinese buyers to switch to domestic technology vendors and echoes efforts by the Trump administration to curb the use of Chinese technology in the US.
\nAs also recently, the US proposed that technology sales into the US from \u201cforeign adversaries\u201d would be vetted for national security reasons, and has been pressuring European allies to freeze Huawei out of 5G infrastructure projects.
\nGoogle, Intel and Qualcomm have also announced they would\u00a0freeze collaboration with Huawei; this means it would be impossible to use social tools<\/a> like Facebook<\/a>, Google<\/a> search engine and popular messaging services like WhatsApp.
\nAccording to Chinese officials, it is only part of a broader move within China to increase its reliance on domestic technology.<\/strong><\/p>\n

30 million computer hardware to be replaced<\/strong><\/h2>\n

According to reports, over 30 million pieces of computer hardware will need replacing in China by 2022 as part of the directive, with large-scale replacement beginning next year.<\/strong>
\nThey added that the replacement would take place at a pace of 30 per cent in 2020, 50 per cent in 2021 and 20 per cent the year after, earning the policy the nickname \u201c3-5-2\u201d.
\nThe 3-5-2 policy is part of a drive for the Chinese government agencies and critical infrastructure operators to use \u201csecure and controllable\u201d technology, as enshrined in the country\u2019s Cyber Security Law passed in 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Huawei\u00a0to sue US government<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Huawei has announced that it would sue the US Federal Communications Commission over what it claims to be an unconstitutional action against it, the world\u2019s second-largest smartphone maker.<\/strong>
\nUS officials have cited security concerns for the ban on business with Huawei, they claim that secret backdoors are built into Huawei products to allow China to spy<\/a> on users have never been proven.
\nGlen Nager, Huawei\u2019s chief legal counsel at a press conference last week, said the order to proscribe the international organisation fails to give Huawei constitutionally required due process before stigmatising it as a national security threat. He demanded that the US Federal Communications Commission provide an opportunity to confront the supposed evidence and witnesses, and grant a fair and neutral hearing process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Chinese government has issued a directive that all government offices and public institutions should remove foreign computer equipment and software within the next three years. The move follows a similar ban in the United States, where the Trump administration blocked US companies from business dealings with Chinese technology giant Huawei and ZTE. This ban […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":27391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}