However much justified, this move was the equivalent of China freezing out Apple and Microsoft. In was an earthquake in China’s tech lands. It “woke up everybody in China,” a prominent Chinese telecom executive told me. “We need to build on a mix of our own technologies to be sure that we are safe. They totally underestimated what they have done.”Lots of Chinese tech companies are now thinking: We will never, ever, ever leave ourselves again in a situation where we are totally dependent on America for key components.

Source: New York Times November 27, 2019 00:22 UTC