Eko Hot Blog reports that China has banned its official from using the U.S. Apple’s iPhones and other foreign devices on its soil.
The Chinese government has prohibited the officials at the central government to stop using any devices that are foreign branded on the government premises of offices.
Senior officials at the government workplace made the instruction to the officials as they were sceptical of the rate of distribution of orders to non-officials.
This new development has come ahead of the Apple event, with speculations of launching a new line of iPhones. This, on the other hand is believed to trigger concerns among foreign companies in China as the Sino-U.S. tensions escalate.
However, China has been working towards cutting down its reliance on foreign technologies, thereby urging its local firms, financial institutions in the country to patronize home-based software and promoting its domestic semiconductor chip manufacturing.
The campaign to support China-generated software began in 2020 in Beijing, when its leaders proposed a dual circulation growth model.
The model was to minimize its absolute reliance on international technology and markets due to possible threats it poises on the country’s data and security.
China has, thereby, urged big state-owned establishments, in May, to play a key role in its drive to attain self-reliance technology.
This development has fueled the rifts with the United States.
According to a report, Beijing is not willing to spare any U.S. company in its push to reduce its dependence on American technologies.
In a visit to China, the U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said U.S. companies complained to her that China had become “un-investible”.
The fines, raids and other actions have made it risky to do business in the world’s second-largest economy.
However, an analyst, Tom Forte said, Apple is not spared, as China takes a big share of its workforce in the assembling of its products. He further stated the need for companies to diversify its supply chain and customer concentrations to be reduce its dependence on China for manufacturing.
China is reportedly one of Apple’s largest markets as it generates almost fifth of the American company’s revenue.
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