What is not open to dispute is that a week after my trip ended, the number of the credit card that I had used for shopping in Beijing was used to make purchases at a Chinese supermarket in New York City. While identity theft is by no means exclusively a Chinese problem, such experiences create the impression that technological modernization in China may be outpacing regulation and data-security infrastructure.
这种说法当然难以确认，最低限度也可以这样说。毫无疑异的是在我的中国之行结束一周后，我用来在北京购物的信用卡号被人用来在纽约的一家中国超市购物。虽然身份盗窃绝非仅仅中国才有，但这样的经历给人的印象是中国的技术现代化可能超前于监管和数据安全基础设施。