Question: let me ask you about another area of the world, china. are you concerned about how hard china is making it for u.s. tech companies to do business there?
Answer: i am concerned. this is something that i’ve raised directly with president xi, and my entire foreign policy team as well as people like secretary of the treasury jack lew and secretary of commerce penny pritzker have raised with them. they’ve got a couple of laws that are working their way through the system that would essentially force all foreign companies, including u.s. companies, to turn over to the chinese government mechanisms where they could snoop and keep track of all the users of those services. and as you might imagine, tech companies are not going to be willing to do that. those kinds of restrictive practices i think would, ironically, hurt the chinese economy over the long term because i don’t think there’s any u.s. or european firm, any international firm, that could credibly get away with that wholesale turning over of data, personal data, over to a government. and so we’ve made very clear to them that this is something they’re going to have to change if they expect to do business with the united states.
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  let me ask you about another area of the world, china. are you concerned about how hard china is making it for u.s. tech companies to do business there?
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  i am concerned. this is something that i’ve raised directly with president xi, and my entire foreign policy team as well as people like secretary of the treasury jack lew and secretary of commerce penny pritzker have raised with them. they’ve got a couple of laws that are working their way through the system that would essentially force all foreign companies, including u.s. companies, to turn over to the chinese government mechanisms where they could snoop and keep track of all the users of those services. and as you might imagine, tech companies are not going to be willing to do that. those kinds of restrictive practices i think would, ironically, hurt the chinese economy over the long term because i don’t think there’s any u.s. or european firm, any international firm, that could credibly get away with that wholesale turning over of data, personal data, over to a government. and so we’ve made very clear to them that this is something they’re going to have to change if they expect to do business with the united states.