DHAKA: Washington is ‘aggressively’ warning Beijing over the repercussions of its demand that US tech firms should hand over their encryption keys if they want to do business in China.

A top US official said on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times.

The statement by US commerce secretary Penny Pritzker comes one month after president Obama rebuked Beijing over a new anti-terror law that would require companies to give Beijing details of their encryption methods or be denied access to the Chinese market.

The law, recently drafted by Chinese lawmakers, is expected to be adopted this year.

‘The approach that we’ve taken with the Chinese government is, one, to first of all aggressively talk about the challenges that some of the regulations might do to impede trade,’ said Pritzker, who is leading a clean energy trade mission to China with executives from 24 US companies.

BDST: 1746 HRS, APR 14, 2015
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