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China unveils global data

security initiative, says some
countries bullying others
Reuters•September 8, 2020
FILE PHOTO: China's State Councillor Wang Yi meets Canada's FM Francois-Philippe Champagne in
Rome
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BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China announced an initiative on
Tuesday to establish global standards on data security, saying it wanted to
promote multilateralism in the area at a time when "individual countries"
were "bullying" others and "hunting" companies.
The announcement, by State Councillor Wang Yi, comes a month after the
United States said it was purging "untrusted" Chinese apps under a
program dubbed "Clean Network".
China's initiative calls for technology firms to prevent the creation of so-
called backdoors in their products and services that could allow data to be
obtained illegally, as well as for participants to respect the sovereignty,
jurisdiction and data management rights of other countries.
It also calls for participants to not engage in large-scale surveillance of
other countries or illegally acquire information of foreign citizens through
information technology.
It did not detail the nature of the initiative or say whether any other country
had joined.
"Global data security rules that reflect the wishes of all countries and
respect the interests of all parties should be reached on the basis of
universal participation by all parties," Wang said.
"Some individual countries are aggressively pursuing unilateralism,
throwing dirty water on other countries under the pretext of 'cleanliness',
and conducting global hunts on leading companies of other countries under
the pretext of security. This is naked bullying and should be opposed and
rejected."
China tightly controls and censors its own cyberspace through the
popularly dubbed Great Firewall, which has for years restricted access to
firms such as U.S. majors Twitter Inc <TWTR.N>, Facebook Inc <FB.O>
and Google owner Alphabet Inc <GOOGL.O>.
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has taken aim at
Chinese giants such as Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL], Tencent
Holdings Ltd <0700.HK> and TikTok owner ByteDance, citing concerns
over national security and the collection of personal data, which the
companies have rejected.
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