> The Chinese government is right to require all of it's citizens data to be stored in domestic datacenters. Why? > Why should they trust their data to a fore

> The Chinese government is right to require all of it's citizens data to be stored in domestic datacenters. Why? > Why should they trust their data to a foreign government? The word "government" is creating a false equivalency because it covers a very broad range of entities: Democratic governments are chosen by their citizens, operate under rule of law, and are dedicated to protecting their citizens rights and welfare, and to democracy and liberty at home and abroad (obviously, they are very imperfect in such things). The Chinese government is an authoritarian dictatorship, an armed group that seized power ("political power grows out of the barrel a gun") and imposes itself on the people of China, and is dedicated to its own perpetuation.