From information security to national security: the confrontation between US and Chinese IT-companies

The article examines certain aspects of the activities of large IT-companies that are closely related to the problem of information security, ensuring digital sovereignty as the basis of national security. Special attention is paid to the struggle of transnational IT-corporations of the USA and China for alternative markets, as well as a number of restrictions imposed on them by the laws of foreign countries. Based on a study of official documents of American and Chinese government agencies and IT-corporations, as well as media materials, the authors conclude that the geopolitical interests of the United States and China are in contact with the goals of big business and force governments to resort to various kinds of prohibitions and protectionist measures. IT-corporations in the USA and China, developers of messengers and social networks do not pay enough attention to the information security of their users.