Security News > 2022 > March > China's annual parliament gives tech industry much to ponder

China is this week staging its annual "Two Sessions" meetings, which see its pair of top decision-making bodies meet to set the agenda for the coming year.

That's very specific language that China's president Xi Jinping uses to indicate the point at which China is again a pre-eminent player in world affairs.

The intent is clear: China will be made whole once Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau are all re-integrated, and will be in a new era once the combined nation can compare itself favourably to western powers in terms of wealth and influence.

On Monday Vietnam's government asked China - with a little hint of impolite irritation - not to stage naval drills in its exclusive economic zone.

Government officials pointed out that China last week announced naval drills in a part of the South China Sea that overlaps that zone.

China has therefore again reminded the world it covets a critical source of tech and demonstrated the reach of its armed forces into territory of an emerging tech power player that happens to be its neighbour.

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