Chinese target by 2022 - use only Chinese technologies • For years China has been preparing for a move to give it technological independence

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Chinese and US economic and technological war worsened. Chinese leadership announced Monday to all government ministries, research centers and public companies that all the foreign materials and software used in their offices should be discontinued. The decision means total reliance on Chinese technology and total blockage Of US multinationals such as Dell, Eichpee, Microsoft and others, and it is, at least according to what has been reported, a Chinese counter-reaction to the US boycott of Wawi and part of the trade war between the two countries.

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The target is undoubtedly ambitious, and since most government offices and public companies in China use Microsoft Windows software, and technologically-built "Lenovo" computers on US parts, the transition will be graded by 2020, 30 percent of the products will be replaced. The ambition is that by 2021, about 50 percent will be replaced and that by 2022, the last 20 percent will be replaced. This is a realization of a previous Chinese government directive, which has previously set concrete targets for restricting the use of foreign technology in China.

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In fact, this is a strategic plan and move that has been planned in China for a number of years, with the goal of relying on home-made technology at all levels. The move forms part of the technological war with the US in particular, and with the West in general, around the question: Who will be dominant in this world in the decades to come?

Evidence of this direction was published in May by Chinese Times editor Global Times Hu Xijin, who said that senior government officials told him that severing Wawai's cooperation with US giants, following the Trump administration's order, would not seriously hurt the company, Because the Chinese regime and technology-related offices have been preparing for this conflict for years.

In fact, the Chinese government is preparing for self-production of processors and all the computer parts it has bought to date from Qualcomm and Intel to fill the gap in the Chinese giant. The senior Chinese journalist said in a social networking post that a very senior official in the Chinese government said to him that saying "wavy cut off" from US companies is good because it will dissipate Chinese people's illusions about future US technology use, as well as allow China to leapfrog in all areas These. "