Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Monday, December 9th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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China has ordered all government offices and public institutions to remove foreign

PC equipment and software within three years in favor of creating an environment where only Chinese made

tech is used. Before you jump to the conclusion that this is more

the trade war stuff, more national security stuff.

More along the lines of,

we've got to use our own tech because of it's made in another country,

there could be

back doors and spyware in it and stuff like that. Basically this is the new

geopolitical reality. Countries don't feel like they can trust computer hardware

from other countries just like they don't want

telecom network equipment from other countries, quoting The Guardian.

This is the first known public directive from Beijing setting specific targets limiting China's use of

foreign technology though it is part of a wider move within China to increase its reliance

on domestic technology the Financial Times reported that the directive would

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