China launches initiative for global data security issues
Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced the initiative in Beijing on Tuesday at a seminar on global digital governance. He said mounting risks for cyber security threaten national security, public interests and private rights.
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China secretary of state Wang Yi (File Photo)
China has launched an initiative to deal with global data security issues, a countermove to the US “clean network” programme that’s aimed toward discouraging other countries from using Chinese technology.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced the initiative in Beijing on Tuesday at a seminar on global digital governance.
He said mounting risks for cyber security threaten national security, public interests and private rights.
The move comes amid a deterioration in US-China relations encompassing trade tensions and competition in telecommunications and AI technologies, with the US accusing Chinese technology companies of threatening American national security.
“Bent on unilateral acts, a particular country keeps making groundless accusations against others within the name of ‘clean’ networks and used security as a pretext to feed on enterprises of other countries who have a competitive edge,” Wang said, consistent with a transcript of his speech released by the ministry.
“Such blatant acts of bullying must be opposed and rejected.”
Wang said it had been important to develop international rules on data security which will “reflect the desire and respect the interests of all countries through broad-based participation”.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last month unveiled the “Clean Network” programme, saying it’s aimed toward protecting citizens’ privacy and sensitive information from “malign actors, like the Chinese Communist Party”.
More than 30 countries and territories like Australia and Britain are participating therein initiative, which seeks to exclude Chinese telecommunications companies like Huawei and ZTE, also as apps, cloud service providers and undersea cables from their internet networks.
The US has expressed concerns over national security threats from services provided by Chinese technology companies like Huawei, Bytedance and Tencent.
Washington has dissuaded some US allies from using Huawei’s technology in 5G networks, saying data potentially might be accessed by the Chinese government. Huawei vehemently denies that.
Washington also has imposed sanctions that restrict Huawei from procuring chips containing American technology. Recently, the US also said it’ll ban Chinese company Bytedance’s popular TikTok video app within the country unless it finds an American buyer. It similarly labelled Tencent’s popular messaging app WeChat a national security threat.
The Chinese initiative opposes impairing critical infrastructure and theft of important data. It also opposes abusing technology to “conduct mass surveillance against other states”, the transcript said.
Companies shouldn’t “install backdoors in their products and services” to illegally obtain user data, should respect the sovereignty, jurisdiction and governance of knowledge in other states,” it says.
“The Chinese government has acted in strict compliance with data security principles. we’ve not and can not ask Chinese companies to transfer data overseas to the govt in breach of other countries’ laws,” said Wang.
“Politicisation of security issues, double standards and slandering others violate the essential norms governing diplomacy , and seriously disrupts and hampers global digital cooperation and development,” he said.
