American business groups are lobbying US President Barack Obama to press Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on technology protectionism concerns during his upcoming US visit.
"China has increasingly pursued policies that have adversely affected the ability of US ICT firms (and the companies that rely on them) to do business in China," the groups wrote.
The lobbies specified China's "approach to defining its national security interests" as a key concern, citing a range of new and proposed laws that the US groups said call into question the world's second-largest economy's commitments to open markets.
US technology groups have been at loggerheads with China since the country started acting on worries its national security was threatened by the ubiquity of American technology.
In their letter to Obama, the co-signees pressed him to achieve a commitment that the two countries wouldn't use the veil of national security to push through protectionist economic policies that restrict competition.