How China’s Tech Giants Like Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu Aid Spy Agencies
▻https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/23/china-tech-giants-process-stolen-data-spy-agencies
U.S. officials say private Chinese firms have been enlisted to process stolen data for their country’s spy agencies. In 2017, as U.S. President Donald Trump began his trade war with China, another battle raged behind the scenes. The simmering, decadelong conflict over data between Chinese and U.S. intelligence agencies was heating up, driven both by the ambitions of an increasingly confident Beijing and by the conviction of key players in the new administration in Washington that China was (...)
