To avoid being banned in the West, Hikvision, the CCP-owned giant video surveillance company, claimed in 2022 it had stopped offering its racist video analytics systems. It was a lie.
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New Xi Jinping Book Emphasizes Its Internet Obsessions
Xi’s two aims are making China a dominating Internet power and preventing use of social media in China by dissidents. Can they be achieved?
A Leaked Indictment: Heavy Punishments for Uyghurs Who Tell the Truth on the Web
23-year-old Mirap Muhammet used a VPN to access Twitter. He was accused of “transferring intelligence abroad,” a very serious crime.
New Regulation on Wireless Ad Hoc Services: Why China Is Afraid of AirDrop
Connections between phones rather than through the Internet are used by protesters to elude surveillance. New rules will make this impossible—with a little help from Apple.
China’s “Query System for Islamic, Catholic, and Christian Clergy,” Another Tool for Repression
After the one for Buddhist monks and Taoist priests, a new data base will allow the authorities to identify priests, pastors, and imams not controlled by the CCP.
Alibaba Software Selectively Monitors Trips To and From Xinjiang
Foreign journalists who go to the Uyghur homeland are spied. So are Uyghurs who visit Shanghai.
Chinese Told to Spy Each Other on the Web
Police is not enough, the CCP says, every loyal citizen should become an informer.
How China’s “Techno-Mediatic Socialism” Controls Global Information
The level of the CCP’s media control throughout the world is already immense. It may become worse, says Joshua Kurlantzick in a new book.
Courtesy of the Two Sessions: Two New Powerful (and Dangerous) Chinese Agencies
Meet the new National Financial Regulatory Administration and National Data Bureau. Both mean more CCP control on the economy and the Internet.
The Digital China 2023 Plan: Is There Something New?
The document reiterates a strategy Xi Jinping is pursuing since before he came to national power. What is new (and alarming) is the propaganda.