Via The Verge’s Amar Toor, China is none too happy to a new US law that would restrict USG purchases of Chinese technology. Toor quoted Shen Danyang, spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Commerce:
This abuse of so-called national security measures is unfair to Chinese enterprises, and extends the discriminatory practice of presumption of guilt. This severely damages mutual trust between the US and China . . . [the bill] sends a very wrong signal.
Stewart Baker previously offered some very good analysis on this measure, and went further with a discussion of possible WTO implications.
I think it will be interesting to see how the Chinese respond to a real cyberexploitation bill, ala the one Rep. Rogers suggested a few days ago that could impose visa restrictions. I have to imagine a bill like that would be very tough to pass, but then again, there seems to be bipartisan agreement that China is a threat, even if there’s no bipartisan agreement on how we should protect the nation.
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