CommentData suspicions threaten to tear China and west apart
Applications by Chinese companies see 200-fold increase since 1999
Analysts say that if Beijing's security organizations want an individual's data, they will get it, despite personal privacy laws. (Source photos by Wataru Ito and Kosaku Mimura)
China is shooting for the sky in its ambitions to secure patents for innovative technologies and products. But even as it unveils world-beating goals, analysts in the West are asking with increasing urgency whether they can trust Chinese technology in a networked world.