China’s Xi Jinping slams tech restrictions, urges G20 members to be inclusive
- Chinese president says building ‘a small yard with high fences’ is not in anyone’s interests
- Remarks come as US looks to further tighten tech restrictions on China
Xi’s remarks – amid an escalating US-China tech war – came during a Wednesday session at the G20 summit in Indonesia.
During a discussion about transformation to digital economies, Xi rejected restrictions on technological cooperation in the expanding global digital economy, saying multilateralism and international cooperation must continue.
He urged nations to work together to close gaps among countries using digital economies and to help developing countries and vulnerable groups better integrate into the digital world.
Xi also encouraged participation in the “G20 Action Plan on Digital Innovation and Cooperation”, promoting innovation for wider use of digital technology. China proposed the plan during the G20 summit it hosted in Hangzhou in 2016, the first time the topic had made it onto a G20 agenda.
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Xi said China was ready to continue cooperating with G20 members to build a “global digital economic paradigm” that would benefit all countries.