{"id":41142,"date":"2023-09-07T07:26:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T11:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=41142"},"modified":"2023-09-11T09:37:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T13:37:56","slug":"china-bans-government-officials-from-using-iphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/china-bans-government-officials-from-using-iphones\/","title":{"rendered":"China bans government officials from using iPhones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-ar-index=\"1\">China has banned government officials from using iPhones and other foreign-branded devices for work or bring them into the office, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"2\">The ban, which was reportedly issued in recent weeks, is part of China&#8217;s efforts to reduce its reliance on foreign technology and protect its data security.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"3\">The report did not name other phone makers besides Apple, but it is likely that the ban also applies to other foreign brands such as Samsung and Huawei.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"4\">The ban comes as tensions between the United States and China continue to rise. The United States has imposed a number of sanctions on Chinese companies, including Huawei, and has also banned the use of TikTok in the country.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"5\">China has responded by banning the import of some American products and services.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"6\">The sources for this piece include an article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/sci-tech\/china-bans-government-officials-from-using-iphones-for-work-wsj-1.6549721\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CtvNews<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has banned government officials from using iPhones and other foreign-branded devices for work or bring them into the office, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. The ban, which was reportedly issued in recent weeks, is part of China&#8217;s efforts to reduce its reliance on foreign technology and protect its data security. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[421],"tags":[112],"class_list":["post-41142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governance","tag-china"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41144,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41142\/revisions\/41144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}