Complete, utter bullshit. There are maybe 4 countries in the world with significantly less dependence on US tech. Out of those 4, one has magnitudes more government interference, another one has even more rules and regulations - including even stricter data privacy laws than GDPR - than the EU, the third has slightly less than the EU but also the lowest local tech % our of the 4, and the last one is Russia.

But sure, it's the rules and regulations that are the problem.

If you have any knowledge on the topic I don't need to name the other three.

Talking software as that's the discussion here, not hardware.