China drops some global tech brands from list of suppliers
Some cite Western surveillance while others say Beijing is promoting local firms
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CHINA has dropped some of the world's leading technology brands from its approved state purchase lists, while approving thousands more locally made products, in what some say is a response to revelations of widespread Western cybersurveillance.
Others put the shift down to a protectionist impulse to shield China's domestic technology industry from competition.
