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China Lashes Out at US Government Technology Restrictions

March 28, 2013
Federal government agencies could buy IT products from China if they passed an official assessment of risks involving "cyber-espionage or sabotage associated with the acquisition of such system," the bill said.

BEIJING -- Beijing branded a new U.S. spending bill barring government purchases of Chinese-made technology "biased" on Thursday, after the two powers clashed over accusations of cyber-hacking.

The bill, signed Tuesday by President Barack Obama, blocked government buying of information technology equipment "produced, manufactured or assembled" by firms "owned, directed or subsidized by the People's Republic of China."

Federal government agencies could buy IT products from China if they passed an official assessment of risks involving "cyber-espionage or sabotage associated with the acquisition of such system," the bill said.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei hit out at the measure at a regular press briefing, saying it "adopts a biased attitude towards Chinese enterprises under the pretext of information security".

The bill "is not conducive to the development of China-U.S. relations," he added.

The U.S. ban follows a war of words between the world's two largest economies over cyber-attacks, after a U.S. research company said last month that a Chinese army unit had stolen "hundreds of terabytes" of data, from mostly U.S. companies.

China dismissed the report as "groundless" and said its defense ministry websites were often subject to hacking attacks originating in the U.S.

China is the U.S.' largest trading partner in "advanced technology products," selling it $117 billion-worth in 2010 alone, according to the Virginia-based National Science Foundation.

The bill could hurt Chinese exporters of IT equipment such as Lenovo (IW1000/202), which sees sales to U.S. government agencies as a major part of its North American growth strategy, reports said.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2013

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