Kissinger Institute

@shotinshanghai identifies three key concepts in understanding trends in US-China tech relations: cybersovereignty, financialization, and cultural security

contextualizing 2015 US-China cybersecurity agreement: "there has been an interest by the Chinese government and by Chinese companies to participate in international standards-making"

Kokas: "The Chinese government has successfully created a system when US companies have every incentive to work through joint ventures owned by Chinese partners-- frequently Chinese government owned partners" @shotinshanghai

on 2017 #China Cybersecurity Law: the provision that "critical information or personal information produced in China must be stored in China led to Apple's decision to build their #iCloud storage in Guizhou province," which also may be a regional development move

.@wenhongchen: "#China's digital economy has not been a part of its planned economy. A big part of the tech economy, including some up-and-coming players, have primarily developed outside of state control. Many tech giants are publically traded in NYC, HK"@EastWestCenter

Chen: "The state does want to have greater control of these tech companies-- not just the big ones, but also the next generation of . These aren't simply tech companies, but can also be finance companies," referring to #China's mobile payments sector @wenhongchen

Chen: "While Tencent is trying to become more global, their biggest product, Wechat remains mostly Chinese/Chinese diaspora." Chen cites Tencent's investments in @FortniteGame as an effort to globalize in gaming sector/solidify role as a VC

"Tech companies initially developed outside of state control, by US-trained students who returned to China s in the 1990s/2000s. A lot of these businesses were labeled as "copied to China" Now confident, tech giants argue that the time of "copied to China is over"- @wenhongchen