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Cover image for Brocent IT blog post: Where Do Your China Backups Live? Cross-Border Data Transfer Compliance for a Foreign Entity's IT

October 30, 2026 | 16 min

Where Do Your China Backups Live? Cross-Border Data Transfer Compliance for a Foreign Entity's IT

A telecom vendor's China entity backed up to a regional cloud outside China. Whether that was allowed turned out to be a legal question, not a technical one.