China’s Social Credit System

I learned last week from a Silicon Valley whistleblower, who spoke with the intrepid investigative team at Project Veritas, that my namesake news and opinion website is on a Google blacklist. Thank goodness the Big Tech giant hasn’t taken over the newspaper …

Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, The Communist Chinese government is bragging about its social credit system has prevented 2.5 million discredited entities from purchasing plane tickets and 90,000 people from buying high speed train tickets in…

Beijing's social credit system has blocked 'untrustworthy' passengers from taking 2.56 million flights and 90,000 high-speed train journeys in July alone.  More than 630,000 individuals were discredited and added to a national blacklist last month, the count…

In her own vlog, China Central Television reporter Liu Chen tested out each part of the existing social credit system, and tried to examine its transparency and neutrality.However, as she says at 4:47 in the video, there are also penalties involved in the soc…

Cities in China are under the heaviest CCTV surveillance in the world, according to a new analysis by our researchers at Comparitech. However, some residents living in cities across the US, UK, UAE, Australia, and India will also find themselves surrounded by…

Chinese President Xi Jinping is a man in a rush to build a legacy. In 2013, only four months into his presidency, Xi launched the One Belt One Road initiative, billed as the largest international development scheme in history. The “New Silk Road Economic Belt…

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A furore sprung up in China this weekend in response to a t-shirt sold by fashion house Versace, which appeared to suggest Hong Kong and Macau were independent nations. Both were formerly European colonies, which were returned to China in the 1990s and are …

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COMMENT: Reports that chairman Lester Levy and his team at Auckland Transport have appointed themselves Auckland's Big Brother, with plans for a unified spy network of 8,000 cameras, open to the police and bureaucrats, both local and national, had me reachi…