Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced in Beijing a global data security initiative《全球数据安全倡议》 on Tuesday outlining principles that should be followed in areas from personal information to espionage.
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.
Wang also said the initiative looks to put an end to activities that “infringe upon personal information” and oppose using technology to conduct mass surveillance against other states.
Companies should also respect the laws of host countries and stop coercing domestic firms to store data generated overseas in their own territory, the initiative added.
Anyone signing up to the pledge should also respect the sovereignty, jurisdiction and governance of data of other states and avoid asking companies or individuals located in other countries to provide data without permission.
At the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre 太原卫星发射中心 , China successfully launched the Gaofen 11-02 高分十一号02星 into a predetermined orbit using the Long March 4B launch vehicle, and the launch was a complete success. GAO-11-02 is an optical remote sensing satellite with a ground resolution of up to sub-metre, which is mainly used in such fields as land census, urban planning, land titling, road network design, crop yield estimation, disaster prevention and mitigation, and can provide information security for the construction of the “Belt and Road”.
On September 4, Shenzhen Maxphotonics Co., Ltd. (Chuangxin Laser) and Shandong Jinan Bodor Laser Co. reported that the 40kW multimode continuous laser sets the record of the highest power of the same kind of industrial laser cutting, equipped with a single module 6kW also simultaneously break the highest record of the domestic industrial utility single mode. https://play.yunxi.tv/livestream/flash?id=e757e5ed77e143e594280206f72e9558#/
China successfully launched a reusable experimental spacecraft with a Long March-2F carrier rocket from the Jiuquan 酒泉 Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China on Friday. The spacecraft will return to Earth after some time in orbit, designed for peaceful use of space.
9-6-20 After flying in orbit for two days, China’s reusable spacecraft, which was launched from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Friday, successfully returned to its designated landing site on Sunday.
China National Nuclear Power Co., a unit of China National Nuclear Corp., said fuel loading started at the Fuqing No. 5 reactor 福清核电5号 , the first to use the domestic technology 华龙一号(原称ACP-1000), on Sept. 4 after securing an operating license from the nation’s Ministry of Ecology & Environment.
Last month, the CEOs of Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon were hauled before the U.S. Congress to be interrogated about their companies’ monopolistic behavior. While Democrats relentlessly grilled the four CEOs over their breach of antitrust laws, Republicans were just as interested in questioning their national loyalty and asking whether they had ties with the Chinese military. At the hearing, Republican Rep. Ken Buck accused Google of declining to work with the U.S. Defense Department while falsely claiming that the company collaborated with the Chinese military. In response, Google CEO Sundar Pichai fought nationalism with patriotism, stating that Google was in fact “proud to support the U.S. government” and boasted that they had “recently signed a big project with the Department of Defense.” Coming from Pichai, the immigrant CEO of a company known for its progressive values, boasting of Google’s collaboration with the Pentagon may just seem like a defensive response to being called treasonous. But Google’s commitment to the military had long preceded this moment. The company’s former CEO, Eric Schmidt, has long advocated for deepening ties with the Pentagon and now serves as the chairman of the Defense Innovation Board—an initiative to transfer technological innovation from Silicon Valley to the U.S. military. Last month, a federal advisory commission that Schmidt chairs also recommended the creation of an artificial intelligence (AI) school to directly staff the U.S. government, including the Defense Department, with new technologists.
Google is far from alone. Late last year, Microsoft won a $10 billion cloud contract with the Pentagon with the goal of “increasing [the military’s] lethality.” Amazon, which also fought aggressively for the $10 billion contract, continues to provide cloud infrastructure for the CIA and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Underpinning this new affinity for the U.S. government is a widespread anxiety that the rise of China’s tech industry may spell the end of Silicon Valley’s dominance. In the past year, the tech investor Peter Thiel and Schmidt himself both wrote New York Times op-eds with the same warning: Silicon Valley must start working with the Pentagon, or else China will win.