China’s Social Credit System

President Donald Trump has boasted that farmers will be struggling to meet demand from China under the terms of a tentative new trade deal. At a rally in Louisiana on Friday night, Trump bragged that the first phase of a deal to end a trade war with China co…

US President Donald Trump on Friday outlined the first phase of a deal to end a trade war with China and suspended a threatened tariff hike, but officials on both sides said much more work needed to be done before an accord could be agreed. The emerging deal…

My father was dead less than a month when I received a letter from his funeral home. The mail was hand-addressed. Another sympathy card, I thought, very nice. But no, rather than a note of condolence, the letter turned out to be something else I should have a…

Picture a world in which the baseline requirement for a new smartphone is a facial recognition test. You needn’t imagine it — in China, beginning December 1, that’s the scrutiny to which the country’s over 850 million internet users will be subject without ex…

US tech giant Apple Inc was this week forced to remove an app that helped anti-government protesters in Hong Kong track police movements, following sharp criticism from a Chinese state newspaper. China's People's Daily on Tuesday called the tracking app "pois…

Submitted by Michael Every, Senior Strategist at Rabobank LOL-A-PLAZA Summary: The US is reportedly weighing a bilateral currency accord with China as part of a trade agreementOur trade scepticism also holds if we focus just on the purport…

More American capitalist kowtowing to Beijing: Apple has removed from its App Store a smartphone app used by Hong Kong pro-democracy activists to crowdsource the location of protesters and police, after Chinese state media suggested the tech giant was aiding…

China’s 854 million internet users will soon need to use facial identification in order to apply for new internet or mobile services.The Chinese government announced last month that telecommunications companies will need to scan users’ faces …

Once upon a time, in the days when Russia was called the Soviet Union and Russians did things far more menacing than take out ads on websites, there was a thing called a "blacklist" in Hollywood. People on the blacklist were communists, who despite being paid…

Chinese citizens will soon have to start using facial identification in order to sign up for internet services or get a new mobile number.  The Chinese government announced last month that residents applying for a new mobile or internet device will have thei…