Since 2015, the PRC has passed or updated comprehensive national security, cybersecurity, and data privacy laws and regulations, expanding Beijing’s oversight of domestic and foreign (including US) companies operating within China. Beijing views inadequate government control of information within China and its outbound flow as a national security risk. These laws provide the PRC government with expanded legal grounds for accessing and controlling data held by US firms in China. US companies a
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Last Monday, the current US administration released a “Statement by President Biden on our Nation’s Cybersecurity,” followed by public statements where Biden warned about the prospect of a Russian cyberattack, saying “it’s coming.” Both the written and verbal comments reinforced the fact that “the federal government can’t defend against the threat alone” and Biden went on to tell US critical infrastructure owners that “under US law…the private sector…largely decides the protections that we will
