China’s Social Credit System

My 23-year-old daughter recently passed her driving test (first time, too!). She had the usual difficulties young people in Ireland have with getting insured. After being quoted some astronomical premiums, she chose a company that put an electronic spy in her…

Researchers in China have developed an ultra-powerful camera capable of identifying a single person among stadium crowds of tens of thousands of people. The 500-megapixel camera was developed by scientists at Fudan University, in conjunction with Changchun I…

China has stepped up its internet censorship by demanding its citizens pass a facial-recognition test to be able to use web services. People who want to have the internet installed at home or on their phones must have their faces scanned by the Chinese autho…

Artificial intelligence is being increasingly used to classify employees, and there's a growing fear ... it might be used to classify people in other respects. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images) 2017 Getty Images Recommending content, powering chatbo…

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…