China drops leading tech brands for certain state purchases

(Corrects Feb 25 story to clarify that companies not included on procurement list can still bid for state public tenders) By Paul Carsten BEIJING (Reuters) - 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 technol