25 February 2020

Governments Are Clamping Down On Foreign Tech Investments


China, Israel, Russia, and the US are among the many countries blurring the line between prudence and paranoia.

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu's governments have murky ways of determining when foreign investments cross the line.

Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed his cabinet to launch a new investment cycle “to ensure economic growth rates above the world level.” Yet just a few weeks earlier, he recommended the legislature pass laws to protect investments in Russian industry—specifically highlighting the need to protect Russian data. (As with all of Putin’s “recommendations,” it came with a deadline attached: April 30.)

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