Impacts of China’s New Counter-Terrorism Law on Sino-U.S. Relations

China’s controversial new anti-terrorism law would require foreign companies to install “backdoors” to give authorities remote access to computers and networks, and has been placed under review due to Western concerns. Since China still has to rely on foreign technology in the immediate future, the law might have been used to tell the United States government not to engage in what Beijing called “reckless behavior,” or to further expose U.S. hypocrisy in its own cyber espionage practices.



Franz-Stefan Gady Senior Fellow, EastWest Institute via CHINA US Focus http://ift.tt/1Ghq4fC