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posted by janrinok on Saturday January 31 2015, @01:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the tit-for-tat dept.

Technology companies that want to sell equipment to Chinese banks will have to submit to extensive audits, turn over source code, and build “back doors” into their hardware and software, according to a copy of the rules obtained by foreign companies already doing billions of dollar worth of business in the country. The new rules were laid out in a 22-page document from Beijing, and are presumably being put in place so that the Chinese government can peek into computer banking systems.

Details about the new regulations, which were reported in The New York Times today ( http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/29/technology/in-china-new-cybersecurity-rules-perturb-western-tech-companies.html?_r=1 ), are a cause for concern, particularly to Western technology companies.

In 2015, the China tech market is expected to account for 43 percent of tech-sector growth worldwide ( http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/in-2015-technology-shifts-accelerate-and-china-rules-idc-predicts/ ). With these new regulations, foreign companies and business groups worry that authorities may be trying to push them out of the fast-growing market. According to the Times, the groups—which include the US Chamber of Commerce—sent a letter Wednesday to a top-level Communist Party committee, criticizing the new policies that they say essentially amount to protectionism.

Story here.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 31 2015, @06:20AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 31 2015, @06:20AM (#139747)

    could the article be shortened (maybe) to:
    "Chinese demand same equipment delivered to western banks"?

    maybe this article is a re-write to make it seem as if the equipment delivered to western banks doesn't have back-doors and that the equipment manufacturer situated on american and subject to americans laws are surprised that the chinese know about the default back-doors?

    Aaaaannnndddd down goes the rubel ...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 31 2015, @07:00AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 31 2015, @07:00AM (#139756)

    Aaaaannnndddd down goes the rubel ...

    which is a good thing for russians

    something a lot of commonfolk (and so called "economists" it seems) are yet to grasp... a high demand for currency is usually a bad thing for a nation's economy

    keywords: balance of trade, deficit, surplus, imports, exports, currency manipulation, reserve notes, debt instrument...