China’s Information Game With the West
Commentary
Only months after publicly assuaging fears of a crackdown on foreign businesses, Beijing seems to be doing just that.
A spate of probes and investigations against foreign businesses in China has renewed questions around China’s policy on foreign companies operating locally.
Recently, Chinese authorities questioned the staff of and seized laptops and other documents from the Shanghai offices of U.S. consulting firm Bain & Company. Earlier in March, authorities closed the Beijing offices of Mintz Group and detained its employees. Mintz is an American corporate due-diligence firm. Also in March, Beijing launched an investigation into Micro Technologies on suspicions of “cybersecurity” risks of the products Micro sells in China….