China tells government offices to remove all foreign computer equipment

Seems this could be a win-win for China:

- Increases the pressure of the trade war on the US.

- Motivates China's already strong technology industry to develop equivalent specification technology for all components, which it can also sell abroad.

- Removes the possibility of security compromised components from outside China and instead enables China to include its own backdoors wherever it wants.

Could also be a win for Lenovo laptop users if they improve their support for GNU/Linux, including offering it pre-installed. Which is the only option I can see open to them if they are replacing Windows.

The title misses " and software". Isn't Linux "foreign"?

So the gauntlet has been dropped and a new era ensues.

No, this is them hardening their infrastructure. Getting rid of all the external sourced backdoors.

I guess both