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The Sunday Debate: China, friend or foe?

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Is It Wise to Allow Foreign Companies to Be Actually Involved in Computer Systems?

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I think you'd better get this in proportion. What we're discussing is not the general question of trade between china and other countries. We're talking about which means do you is it wise to allow foreign companies to be actually involved in the computer systems that will control our nuclear power stations, for example? Well the answer is, first of all, that depends which country they come from. It depends secondly, whether these companies could be instructed by their government to involve themselves in political interference. That would be illegal under british law. And under chinese law, it seems to be something which is permitted. So you've got to have a strategy, which has been developed quite substantially

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