China Makes Basic Business Data National Security Risks
A screen displays trading information for Didi Global on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, on Dec. 3, 2021. The ride-hailing giant is delisting from NYSE as it faces mounting pressure from Chinese regulators over data security concerns. Brendan McDermid/Reuters
The world’s understanding of China increasingly resembles the old Soviet Union joke: the authorities pretend they are paying wages, workers pretend they are working. China blocking basic business data threatens to shut them off from the world even more.
Christopher Balding
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Christopher Balding was a professor at the Fulbright University Vietnam and the HSBC Business School of Peking University Graduate School. He specializes in the Chinese economy, financial markets, and technology. A senior fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, he lived in China and Vietnam for more than a decade before relocating to the United States.
