And harsh measures against China could alienate allies and trigger a rash of similarly harsh measures by counties abroad toward U.S. Broad fears of technological hegemony may be overblown, some policy experts say. This view is by no means unanimous in national-security circles, however. "Data is the oil of the 21st century, the indispensable resource that will fuel artificial-intelligence algorithms, economic strength and national power," they wrote in a New York Times op-ed last fall.
deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs. The threat goes well beyond trade secrets, argue Matt Pottinger, the Trump Administration's deputy national security adviser, and David Feith, former U.S. Our economic global supremacy, stability and long-term vitality is not only at risk, but squarely in the cross hairs of Xi Jinping and the communist regime." "China's ability to holistically obtain our intellectual property and trade secrets via illegal, legal and sophisticated hybrid methods is like nothing we have ever witnessed. "It is estimated that 80 percent of American adults have had all of their personal data stolen by the CCP, and the other 20 percent most of their personal data," Evanina told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in August, 2021. The issue has become a matter of growing bipartisan concern.
Commerce Department officials told Newsweek that in recent months they've launched at least four active investigations of tech companies with ties to China or other foreign adversaries and plan a more far-reaching investigation.Īlthough the Biden Administration has declined to comment, the arguments are well-known in Washington policy circles. And Reuters reported in May that the Biden Administration has been putting the final touches on an executive order that would give the Department of Justice new powers to stop foreign adversaries, like China, from accessing Americans' personal data. A new round of congressional hearings are expected on the issue in the fall. economic, military and commercial interests and leave citizens vulnerable to spying and manipulation. Complacency in the face of this threat, they say, could harm U.S. This would represent an escalation of Beijing's well-established campaign of corporate espionage through hacking and the export of Chinese-made technologies that allegedly contain back-doors for Chinese spies to access foreign data at will.Ĭhina hawks are calling on the Biden Administration to launch a broad review of Chinese internet, telecom and tech companies operating in the U.S, and restrict activities-and the ability to access American data-of those deemed a threat to U.S.
have warned that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is aggressively moving to control all the data that flows through the country-even data that originate from American and other Western firms working in China. In recent months, some of the more hawkish national security mavens in Washington, D.C. Data-lots of it, the more the better-has, along with the rise of artificial intelligence, taken on strategic importance. companies or to influence citizens but also to build the foundation of technological hegemony in the not-too-distant future. and its citizens not just to steal secrets from U.S. The fear is that China is vacuuming up data about the U.S. The rise of Big Data-the vast digital output of daily life, including data Google and Facebook collect from their users and convert into advertising dollars-is now a matter of national security, according to some policymakers. and China, one that is expected to get significant attention in Washington this fall. took BGI up on its offer.Įvanina's suspicions highlight a growing tension between the U.S. counterintelligence official, Bill Evanina, later told 60 Minutes that the labs were "modern-day Trojan horses," an effort by the Chinese government to establish a "foothold" to bring in equipment, collect DNA and start "mining your data." No one in the U.S.
But Wang's offer ran afoul of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, which issued a stark warning: "Foreign powers can collect, store and exploit biometric information from COVID tests." The Trump Administration's top U.S.
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