Beijing ordered departments and state corporations to replace personal computers of foreign brands with Chinese counterparts running on an operating system developed in China within two years. According to Bloomberg estimates, it will have to be replaced at least 50 million computers only at the level of the government of the country. The decision continues China’s decade-long campaign to replace imported technology with local alternatives, a sweeping attempt to reduce reliance on the US and other Western countries for everything from semiconductors to servers to phones. This is likely to directly affect sales of HP and Dell, the country’s largest...