China has taken aim at the United States saying its tech firms are victims of “Naked Bullying”. This allegation comes as the China government launches a new set of global guidelines for technology companies. In the last month, a closed data of privacy effort was announced by the united state, and it is called The Clean Network. Although China targets the United States for bullying its tech firms.
This is the latest incident between Washington and Beijing over data security issues which has already involved Tik-Tok, Huawei, and We Chat.
In the current months, the Trump administration has taken steps to block Chinese technology firms like Huawei and Chinese apps including Tik-Tok and We-Chat. The Trump administration saying these apps are pose threats to national security. They are miss-using customer data.
China’s State Councillor Wang Yi said that “Some individual countries are aggressively pursuing concerned with one side and they are throwing dirty water on other countries under the 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.”
Today Mr. Wang said the new initiative also calls for technology firms to not create backdoors – secret access to a company’s data and network – into their services.
Mr. Wang also said that “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”.
The United States government has regularly charged with Chinese telecoms provider Huawei of having backdoors in its equipment.
In August US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo launched the Clean Network, a global blueprint to exclude Chinese telecoms firms, apps, cloud providers from internet infrastructure used by the US and other countries.
This week, China’s largest chip manufacturer’s Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) was targeted for a US government blacklist. This would restrict suppliers from providing it with American-based tech without special permission.
On this Tuesday, US President Donald Trump stressed his desire to “decouple” from China.
The President of the United State Mr. Trump said that whether it’s decoupling, or putting in massive tariffs like I have been doing already, we will end our reliance on China because we can’t rely on China,”
India’s government has also banned Tik-Tok, Pubg, and dozens of more Chinese-made apps.
