Posted on 05/01/2023 4:16:31 AM PDT by FarCenter
Pressed by Republican senators to sanction Chinese cloud computing companies, US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo made it clear that she and the Biden administration would not be painted as weak on China:
“I’ve put over 200 Chinese companies on the entity list in my tenure,” she told the Senate Appropriations Committee, “and we are actively, constantly investigating additional threats and if and as we think companies need to go onto the list, I will not hesitate.”
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In China, the company reports that more than 800 government clouds are now built on Huawei Cloud, the company’s “One City, One Cloud” concept has been implemented in more than 150 cities, and more than 300 financial institutions including six major banks, 90% of the top 50 e-commerce companies and 90% of the top 30 auto companies use Huawei Cloud.
Other user industries include e-commerce, finance, energy, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and gaming. Outside China, Huawei Cloud has a presence in the Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Europe. Aside from not being able to work in the US, being on the Entity List does not seem to be a major problem.
Will US politicians be able to throw a spanner into the works of other Chinese cloud service providers? Perhaps. They could force US companies including Salesforce, IBM, VMware and Fortinet to sever their ties with Alibaba Cloud, just as they forced Oracle to sever its ties with Huawei.
That prompted Huawei to develop its own ERP software, which it announced in April. Something similar would probably happen if Alibaba Cloud were put on the Entity List managed by the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS).
Being put on the list can be a serious problem, but it also forces the targeted company to try harder. In the Global South and other parts of the world where US sanctions are not recognized, it might be called the BIS Certificate of Quality.
Bkmk
What it really means, is people and companies too dumb to figure it out, blindly trust their data, pictures, etc., to be stored on a server somewhere, owned by some entity.
They have no idea where the servers are and who owns them.
I do NOT trust any “cloud” to store any of my data and information. I store it on a 2Tb external WD “My Book” HD, on my desk. I control back-ups and storage, not Norton or anyone else.
A war on competition will ultimately fail because the world will be loyal to what works, not the Rules BaSeD InteRnAtiOnal OrDER. The focus should be on producing a better, cheaper product. That won’t be easy in a country with 4-5 times the population that isn’t paralyzed by wokeness and is graduating millions of science, engineering and tech workers per year.
Fake war between fellow traveling leftists in China and the Biden regime.
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