TOKYO -- What can be done to loosen China's authoritarian grip on technology, and prevent a "digital iron curtain" from dividing the world? Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his team have an idea. It's an initiative for new technology rules, aimed at easing the distrust between the U.S. and China that has boiled over in recent weeks over Huawei Technologies.
Japan is attempting to bring together a "digital TPP," intended to unite members under one set of rules -- and to ease the deepening distrust between the U.S. and China. (Illustration by Eric Chow)
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