The Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, appearing in a video during a closed-door meeting in Beijing on Tuesday, announced the eight-part framework that touches on contentious topics such as Beijings handling of user data.
Per the rules laid out by the initiative, Beijing will not ask Chinese companies to transfer overseas data to the government in breach of other countries laws. China also calls on states to oppose mass surveillance against other states and asks companies to refrain from installing backdoors in their products and services for illegal data collection.
While some may dispute concepts put forward by Beijings new data security standard, one thing is for certain: China is continuing to push the cyber sovereignty notion, which has manifested itself in the Great Firewall and data localization rules.
Chinese and foreign officials as well as think tanks and company representatives were present at the Tuesday meeting and expected to offer suggestions on the initiative, saidthe Global Times, the Chinese Communist Partys official paper.
In his speech, Zhang launched an attack on the Trump Administrations Clean Network program that could purge a range of Chinese tech firms from the U.S.
A certain country keeps making groundless accusations against others in the name of a clean network and uses security as a pretext to prey on enterprises of other countries that have a competitive edge.
Such blatant acts of bullying must be opposed and rejected, said the official without naming the country, though there was no ambiguity in his description.
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