China’s Social Credit System

TikTok, the app that revolves around sharing short video clips, is in a unique position. Its arguably the first international social media platform to have built a massive audience in the United States, where its been downloaded more than 110 million times si…

The Catholic charity organization Aid to the Church in Need’s report Persecuted and Forgotten? found a marked increase in repression of the free practice of Christianity in China in the time period it studied, between 2017 and 2019. Chinese dictator Xi Jinpi…

Advertising Mainstream press has been flush recently with stories detailing Beijings encroachment on NBA and American values. Chinas corporate bullying, a phenomenon well-known to seasoned China watchers, was dragged screaming into the light earlier this mon…

Peter Navarro, the US lead trade negotiator with China, was recently found to have published multiple books citing a fake expert that turned out to be his alter ego.Navarro had quoted “Ron Vara” (an anagram of his name) sharing exaggerated th…

"Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience." - William Shakespeare, "Timon of Athens" "We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable R…

The 5G networks that are being deployed all around Europe can provide urban citizens with sustainable living, reduced traffic and stringent security but the technology can also be a slippery slope towards mass surveillance From sustainable living, reduced tra…

The 5G networks that are being deployed all around Europe can provide urban citizens with sustainable living, reduced traffic and stringent security but the technology can also be a slippery slope towards mass surveillance From sustainable living, reduced tra…

In this episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna are joined by Computer Weeklys security editor Alex Scroxton to discuss the BBC TV mini-series The Capture. The Captures sixth and final episo…

I guess this is getting to be a pattern now: If you've made your pile and you've made a lot of it from China, to heck with the Hong Kongers and their protests for freedom. You'll be sticking up for their oppressor, communist red China, home of sweatshops, int…

Its become quite clear to me that the situation in Hong Kong is now about regime change through economic terrorism. What started as peaceful protests against an extradition law and worry over reunification with China has morphed into an ugly and vicious assau…