CHINA has ordered central government agencies and state-backed corporations to replace foreign-branded personal computers with domestic alternatives within 2 years, marking one of Beijing’s most aggressive efforts so far to eradicate key overseas technology from within its most sensitive organs.

Staff were asked after the week-long May break to turn in foreign PCs for home-made alternatives that run on operating software developed domestically, people familiar with the plan said. The exercise, which was mandated by central government authorities, is likely to eventually replace at least 50 million PCs on a central-government level alone they said, asking to remain anonymous discussing a sensitive matter.

The latest central government directive is likely to cover only PC brands and software, and exclude hard-to-replace components such as processors from Intel and AMD, the people said. China will mostly encourage Linux-based operating systems to replace Microsoft’s Windows Shanghai-based Standard Software is one of the top providers of such tools, one person said.

https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/government-economy/china-orders-government-state-firms-to-dump-foreign-pcs-sources

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-06/china-orders-government-state-firms-to-dump-foreign-pcs

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  • Sinonatrix [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Chinese government news always sounds so ridiculous because no part of the American government even has the energy to do something as relatively small as this. My big empire took the grill pill and is just vibing into fascism.

    • Quimby [any, any]
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      2 years ago

      yes!!!! the US can't figure out how to build a small bridge in Eastern Kentucky, and then China goes and casually makes rapid nationwide progress on problems as they come up.

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      part of it is that the US constitution was set up to make it virtually impossible to do anything.

      Which was fine for the original purpose of the United States which was solely to form one entity that could owe the debt from the revolutionary war as well as pay the pensions of the continental army. The US constitution is basically having the legal equivalent of Y2K in terms of facing issues due to not being designed for the current situation or designed for the new situation

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Do American ICBMs still run on big ass floppy disks or have they replaced those systems?