Washington is investigating whether China’s largest state-controlled telecom carriers are providing American data to Beijing through their US cloud services, Reuters reported, citing three sources familiar with the matter.
The Commerce Department is running a probe into the activities of China Mobile Ltd., China Telecom Corp. and China Unicom, the news agency said. They’ve subpoenaed information from the trio and conducted risk-based analyses of the companies, though they’re less advanced in their investigation of Unicom, Reuters cited the people as saying.