#记录我的2024#
Written by Tachibana
At present, the United States is extremely hostile to China and has imposed unreasonable sanctions on China in high-tech fields such as chips. Against this backdrop, Chinese officials continue to use U.S. hardware and software systems, and the backdoor is extremely risky. As a result, China has begun to ask government agencies to switch to domestically produced information technology products, which is seen as an important step in China's counter-sanctions against the United States.
On March 24, according to Agence France-Presse, the Chinese government recently released procurement demand standards. By standard, this could mean that in the future, China would ban government computers from using Intel and AMD chips, Microsoft Windows operating systems, and foreign-made database software.
Obviously, the most direct purpose of this is to ensure the information security of the mainland's government departments and related key industries such as finance. According to incomplete statistics, last year alone, the mainland was hit by about 2 million cyber attacks, many of which were launched by the United States and its allies using software and hardware backdoors. Therefore, the elimination of these software and hardware will better protect the mainland's national security.
At the same time, this will also be an important decision to enhance the localization and independence of the mainland's information technology industry, and I am afraid it will be of extremely important strategic significance. If such a policy can be promoted from the government to the private sector on a large scale, it will not only improve the level of national information security, but also help promote the rapid development of domestic software and hardware, so that China can once again achieve leapfrog development in the field of information technology and obtain qualitative improvement.
As early as many years ago, China realized the need to strengthen its independence in the field of information technology, but due to various reasons such as relatively backward technology, we still need to rely more on foreign software and hardware equipment. But with the passage of time, we have relatively mature technical reserves and related products.
At the end of last year, the China Information Security Evaluation Center and the National Secrecy Science and Technology Evaluation Center jointly announced the first batch of safety and reliability evaluation lists. There are a total of 18 chip products, 6 operating systems, and 11 centralized databases on the list, all of which are developed and manufactured by mainland enterprises, including Kunpeng, Loongson, Feiteng, Pangu, Haiguang and other chips, desktop operating systems such as Galaxy Kirin, and databases such as Dameng database management system. This shows that China's local enterprises have achieved good results in the field of software and hardware in the information technology industry.
(Data map: Loongson chip)
Of course, this good news in the eyes of Chinese may not be so happy in the eyes of Americans.
First, the United States has been trying to block China's high-tech development path, such as rallying allies to restrict the supply of high-end chips to China. Now, once China breaks through, the US blockade plan will inevitably be aborted.
Second, the Americans have been using the backdoor of their products to monitor the world for years, even their own allies. But if China begins to completely phase out related products from the United States, it will be tantamount to cutting off the eyes and ears of the Americans, and it will be a huge blow to the intelligence gathering efforts of the United States.
(The U.S. is spying on its allies, too.)
Third, this will also be a very big economic blow to the U.S. semiconductor and related industries. According to public data, in 2023, the Chinese market will contribute about 27% of Intel's sales, with sales figures of more than $14.5 billion, and AMD will contribute about 15% of sales, with sales figures of more than $3.4 billion. At this time, China is gradually stopping the use of American companies' products, and these companies are probably going to have a lot of pain in the flesh for a while.
(Yellen got off the plane during her visit to China last year)
Perhaps China's countermeasures came too suddenly and caught the United States off guard. The US Secretary of the Treasury recently announced that he will visit China in April. It is widely believed that against the backdrop of sluggish Sino-US relations, Yellen's visit is aimed at easing tensions between the two sides and allowing China to continue doing business with the United States. However, the United States only wants to take advantage of China and refuses to let China take advantage, and this kind of behavior that runs counter to market rules is really despicable. China's counterattack is very resolute, and it depends on how the United States responds.