China Unveils Global Initiative for Data Security

China announced a global data security initiative outlining principles that should be followed in areas from personal information to espionage.

According to CNBC, China’s initiative has eight key points including not using technology to impair other countries’ critical infrastructure or steal data, and making sure service providers don’t install backdoors in their products and illegally obtain user data.

The initiative included that companies should also respect the laws of host countries and stop coercing domestic firms to store data generated overseas in their own territory.

On other hand, China tightly controls and censors its own cyberspace through the popularly dubbed "Great Firewall", which has for years restricted access to firms such as US majors Twitter, Facebook and Google owner Alphabet.

The administration of US President Donald Trump has taken aim at Chinese giants such as Huawei Technologies, Tencent and TikTok owner ByteDance, citing concerns over national security and the collection of personal data, which the companies have rejected.

Also, it has blocked US exports to Huawei and plans to ban TikTok in the United States this month unless ByteDance sells TikTok's US operations.