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China’s Social Credit System

China uses an intrusive surveillance app to track its Muslim minority, with technology that could be exported to the rest of the world. Here’s how it works. China's Social Credit System

China uses an intrusive surveillance app to track its Muslim minority, with technology that could be exported to the rest of the world. Here’s how it works.

China is waging an unprecedented, high-tech crackdown in the Xinjiang region, home to a mostly-Muslim ethnic minority called the Uighurs. Officials there use an intrusive app where they are prompted to log extremely personal information like political views,…
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May 11, 2019
A closer look at China’s strategy — and why the US keeps losing to it | TheHill – The Hill China's Social Credit System

A closer look at China’s strategy — and why the US keeps losing to it | TheHill – The Hill

From 900 AD to 1905, China used a form of execution known as lingchi. Referred to as the lingering death or slow slicing, it became commonly known as death by a thousand cuts. Banned in 1905, Lingchi now has become a parallel for how the United States is losi…
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May 5, 2019
Week in Review: Paris May Day protests turn violent, Arundhati Roy & the world is getting angrier China's Social Credit System

Week in Review: Paris May Day protests turn violent, Arundhati Roy & the world is getting angrier

This week FRANCE 24 took a look at Leonardo da Vinci's genius, 500 years after his death; independence activists who sought Hitler's help in liberating India from colonialism; and how China uses a new "social credit" system to rank citizens. ARTICLES Peopl…
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May 3, 2019