China’s Social Credit System

A furore sprung up in China this weekend in response to a t-shirt sold by fashion house Versace, which appeared to suggest Hong Kong and Macau were independent nations. Both were formerly European colonies, which were returned to China in the 1990s and are …

This past week found America in a soul-searching mood. Two mass shootings, one in El Paso, Texas, and one in Dayton, Ohio, left 31 dead and scores injured, and an aching nation demanded answers as to what, or who, was to blame for this chaotic, unsettling sta…

COMMENT: Reports that chairman Lester Levy and his team at Auckland Transport have appointed themselves Auckland's Big Brother, with plans for a unified spy network of 8,000 cameras, open to the police and bureaucrats, both local and national, had me reachi…

But now lets come back home and take a look at Nines brand-new news bulletin that you wont see on TV: SYLVIA JEFFREYS: It is very exciting, Nine News Watch has finally arrived. And I suppose the first and most obvious difference is that this Nine News bullet…

Since 2014, about 500 cities in China have launched transformative efforts toward becoming  cyber-connected smart cities, and now Chinese tech giant Huawei is moving to export its systems to Central Asia. In April 2019, Huawei closed a $1 billion deal with th…

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the SPIEF 2019 Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum on June 7, 2019. | Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images If America frames its response to Russia and China as one of “civilizational stru…

Veteran journalist and political commentator Willy Lam spoke to RFA's Cantonese Service on Tuesday about why the ruling Chinese Communist Party hasn't cracked down on Hong Kong yet, in spite of escalating protests against amendments to the city's extradition …

The 21st century is a great time to be alive. We drive electric cars, we’re curing diseases with CRISPR, and we’ll soon be returning to the moon in rockets more reusable than the Space Shuttle ever was. But it’s not all silicon and sunshine – our future has …

In the face of mounting pressure on personal freedom, Chinese internet users appear to be trying more actively to push back against tightening digital surveillance from Beijing.  On both Chinese and foreign websites, discussions, tips and software hacks to c…

The Whitehall machine will be remodelled on the Chinese Communist Party In many of his posts, Cummings argues that the civil service is ill-equipped to execute policy, and that ‘failure is normal’ because Whitehall has been built on a system of distorted rel…