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Debates about whether American companies should do business with China are laden with distasteful and unconstructive opinions about American morality.
A scandal involving an executive for an America’s professional basketball team has shown the American public the difficulties of working in the Chinese market. But this experience is hardly new. The technology sector has long struggled to navigate the public relations problems of expansion into China. The National Basketball Association can learn from the adjustments made by tech firms to do business responsibly in China.
The Department of Justice unsealed a criminal complaint against Xuehua "Edward" Peng for acting as an illegal foreign agent. The complaint alleges that Peng handed over U.S. national security information to officials from China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS). Extensive details of the FBI's counterintelligence investigation against Peng are also included in the complaint, which can be read here.
Have Hong Kong and China missed their opportunity to work together amicably?
The president has suggested that U.S. companies have an obligation to aid the U.S. government and avoid contracts with foreign countries. But U.S. companies have thrived abroad precisely because they have not been subject to this sort of techno-nationalist interference.
Lawfare’s biweekly roundup of U.S.-China technology policy news.
U.S. complacency about the protests and police violence will not improve ties with China.
The controversial proposal would create a legal mechanism by which individuals could be rendered from Hong Kong back to mainland China. Many fear that it would be used by Beijing to grab individuals that China couldn’t otherwise get its hands on.
It’s not clear whether criminal charges against hackers deter foreign adversaries, but they are still valuable.
Lawfare’s biweekly roundup of U.S.-China technology policy news.