China asks telecommunications companies to get rid of foreign slides

By 2027, Beijing asked telecommunications companies such as “China Mobile” to replace foreign slides in its basic networks, according to The Wall Street Journal, with the rise to people familiar with the matter. The newspaper said the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the Richtien earlier this year, which caused a possible blow to the US Chip Industry Company “Intel” and “Advanced Micro Devices Inc”. The shares of the two companies fell by 3% and 4% respectively on Friday morning. The newspaper pointed out that the ministry, who oversees the industry, the three largest mobile businesses in the state, which includes ‘China Unicom’ and ‘China Telecom’, includes its networks and determines time schedules to replace Chinese processors. The representatives of the three operators did not immediately respond to the comments requests. Beijing accelerates a campaign to renounce US technology, partly to escape from an increasing group of US sanctions. The government has ordered the institutions and companies returned by the state to abandon the iPhone devices, encouraged businesses to abandon foreign computers and asked the manufacturers of electric cars to keep the locally designed silicon. Also read: Does America stand out of China’s dominance in the Small Marches market? The extensive and coordinated Chinese efforts accelerated in 2023 with the rise of leading national enterprises such as “Huawei Technologies”, which caused the possibility of local alternatives in the entire technological supply chain. The direction of telecommunications companies reflects the movements of Western governments to prevent the use of ‘Huawei’ networks, which regard it as a threat to national security. The three government transport companies in China are one of the largest cloud service providers and data centers in the country and use slides from US suppliers.