Samm Sacks is a Senior Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center and a Cybersecurity Policy Fellow at New America. She has worked on Chinese tech and cyber policy for over a decade, both in the national security community and the private sector. Previously, Samm launched the industrial cybersecurity business for Siemens in Asia. She also led China technology sector analysis at the political risk consultancy Eurasia Group. She reads and speaks Mandarin and was a Fulbright Scholar in Beijing.
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Last week, senior TikTok executives held a private briefing to review the details of Project Texas and the contours of the national security agreement it is negotiating with the U.S. government.
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China’s cybersecurity law (CSL) officially takes effect today.
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