China’s Social Credit System

Both America and China assume they are special and inherently superior to other nations.  Both expect other countries to follow their lead.  Unlike Americans, whose time horizon rarely extends beyond the next election, China plays the long game.  The Chinese …

Chinese inspired technology will soon be used to track what Australians are browsing on their phone, where they're going and if they're involved in criminal behaviour.  This year, Darwin council will install the new 'Smart technology', which uses facial reco…

What just happened? Communist authorities in China are in the process of developing a social credit system, a nationwide technology-driven reputational system that will allow the government to more effectively monitor and control its citizens through incenti…

Editors note: This essay was a runner up in the John Quincy Adams Societys 2019 Student Foreign Policy Essay Contest, which asked students across the country to answer the following question: Are the United States and China on a path to conflict? The straine…

China's Skynet and Sharp Eyes projects aim to comprehensively surveil China's 1.4 billion people by 2020 through a network of 626 million video cameras stationed in public spaces monitored using facial recognition technologies optimized via artificial intelli…

Lets place ourselves, for a moment, into the mindset of a statist. If you and your cronies wanted to control everybodys lives, how exactly would you go about getting such raw power? Obviously, you wouldnt come right out and say you have a special project desi…

Published: 6:20pm, 22 Apr, 2019 Updated: 6:20pm, 22 Apr, 2019

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