Do Foreign Governments Need American Tech?

外国政府需要美国技术吗?

WSJ What’s News

2026-02-22

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France recently ordered government workers to stop using American videoconferencing tools like Teams or Zoom and instead use a program developed by the French state. The move is just the latest example of a growing “tech sovereignty” trend, as countries seek to build their own digital technologies to reduce their dependence on the U.S. private sector. Luke Vargas speaks to the man leading France’s “digital sovereignty” push, David Amiel, France’s Minister for State Reform, and to WSJ tech reporter Sam Schechner about what it could all mean for Silicon Valley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • And this week, do foreign governments need American tech?

  • Last month, France ordered government workers to stop using Teams, Zoom, Skype,

  • GoToMeeting, and WebEx,

  • claiming that their proliferation had made France dependent on non-European actors.

  • And instead,

  • government workers were to use a homegrown communication tool developed by the French state.

  • The move is just the latest example of a growing tech sovereignty trend as countries seek to build their own digital technologies from communications platforms to AI systems,

  • cloud networks, or even chips and reduce their dependence on the U.S.

  • private sector.

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