China’s way of making policy astounds me sometimes. Case in point is the policy on VPNs. When I wrote my first book, six years ago, the Chinese had already started to ban VPNs. This is what they call Window Guidance, not formal policy but enforced none the less, just to see if that is a workable way to do business. If the uproar is really bad, they back off for awhile, then go at it again later. This one was bad enough to wait seven years, but they never give up.
Now, they have a formal policy and it is not one foreign business leaders will like. They are going to ban all VPNs that have not been registered - in other words, they will ban all that have not been reviewed by them and approved for “security”. That is not the business security; it is the National Security of China. They get access to anything that goes through that VPN. That will include trade secrets, business plans, employee data, et al. they get everything. Of course, as they say, “Yes, we could have access to anything, but we don’t actually do that.” So, we have intelligence agencies over the entire world who say they would not access secrets of businesses even though they could.
We should allow our Intelligence Agencies to collect business secrets and give them to business leaders here in the US. That applies the same policy to our country that the Chinese follow in theirs. It can be applied just to Chinese companies, if you like. The Chinese must think our business leaders are complete idiots.
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