The order was received by government agencies and companies that benefited from government support. They have two years to complete the task.

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• Now, according to Bloomberg, Foreign brands will stop using at least 50 million personal computers. The publication calls this one of Beijing’s most aggressive measures to date to abandon key foreign technologies.
• According to people familiar with the plan, employees were asked to swap foreign computers for local alternatives running on a local operating system.
• Attempt, approved by the central government. This was stated by sources who asked to remain anonymous.

The decision is another step in China’s decade-long campaign to replace imported technology with local alternatives, from semiconductor products to network equipment and phones. This is expected to directly affect the sales of HP and Dell Technologies, the country’s largest computer brands after Lenovo Group.

According to experts, these efforts reflect Beijing’s growing concern over information security, as well as reliance on domestic equipment. Over the next two years, these measures will extend to regional institutions.

China fears sanctions

Such measures are not really surprising, because China today, trying to balance Russia with the West, understands that Moscow can pay dearly for its support, and has even been warned. Therefore, it seems logical for a country that has not yet been subject to sanctions and has time to prepare for a possible strike, replacing American and European technologies.

This explains China’s further steps. The country’s officials decided to conduct a “stress test” to see how its economy would cope with the sanctions imposed on Russia. According to The Guardian, such tests will determine possible outcomes. According to a person familiar with the matter, large-scale exercises began immediately after unprecedented restrictions were placed on Russia.

From Beijing’s point of view, if the US-led Western allies could take such action against Moscow, they could do the same to China. “So the country needs to know how resilient it really is,” said Tong Zhao, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Beijing.

Earlier, Edward Fishman, John Kerry’s former economic sanctions adviser at the US State Department, said that no economy – not even China – is safe from the West’s financial sanctions on Russia. “There is no good alternative to the western financial system and it will probably stay that way for a long time,” he said.