"IF YOU want to stay in China, you have to go all in." So says James Fitzsim-mons of Control Risks, a consultancy, of the impact China's new cyber-security law will have on multinational companies (mncs). These firms have moaned for months about the law's intrusive and vague provisions and asked for a delay in its implementation, but to no avail. It came into force on June 1st, and foreign firms are now scrambling to figure out its implications. Mr Fitzsimmons, for one, is convinced that they must take the costly step of separating their local it systems from their global networks.
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