China’s Social Credit System

The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity Amy Webb PublicAffairs 320 pages ISBN: 978-1-5417-2441-9 £13.99 In her more paranoid books, Agatha Christie imagined that the world was being secretly and deliberately destabil…

President Donald Trump issued is congratulations to Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Chinese people on the 70th anniversary of Communist rule, acknowledging a government he has accused of ripping off the United States.  The president's congratulations ca…

Bloomberg defended Chinas ruling communist regime citing its handling of pollution and environmental policy, claiming that it is responding to the needs of citizens. The billionaires comments come amid months of violent protest in Hong Kong and international …

As he looks down from the rostrum of the Forbidden City in Beijing at the military parade to mark the 70th birthday of the People's Republic of China, President Xi Jinping can consider the achievements and struggles of those seven tumultuous decades. The num…

The PRC also has grown more aggressive internationally. Although Beijing does not threaten fundamental American security—no one imagines a Chinese assault on the U.S. homeland—it is mounting a significantly greater challenge to American influence in East Asia…

This is the nineteenth episode in our ongoing Saturday series on eight+ things to read about China and a lot more. We constantly get emails from readers asking what to read on China and all sorts of things related and even barely related to China and this ser…

This is the nineteenth episode in our ongoing Saturday series on eight+ things to read about China and a lot more. We constantly get emails from readers asking what to read on China and all sorts of things related and even barely related to China and this ser…

Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, Device can identify individual faces out of crowds of tens of thousands; Will take mass surveillance to a new level A new camera with a resolution five times more detailed than the human eye, able to monitor thousan…

President Trump on Sept. 12 announced that the U.S. would delay tariff increases on $250 billion of Chinese imports until Oct. 15, creating a possible opening for the two sides to reach an agreement during a round of negotiations scheduled for early October. …

Posted September 26, 2019 17:33:19 Scientists have unveiled a 500 megapixel cloud camera system in China that they say is capable of capturing the facial details of each individual in a crowd of tens of thousands of people, raising fears facial recognition…