At the end of last year, the Chinese government adopted new regulations requiring companies that sell IT equipment to Chinese banks to build "back doors" into hardware and software, reveal secret source code and submit to invasive audits. This week, foreign business groups, including the US Chamber of Commerce, sent a letter to the government committee on cyber-security, objecting to the new policies and calling for "urgent discussion and dialogue".
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