China’s Social Credit System

Protesters in Hong Kong have taken to the streets for weeks, coming out in large numbers, blocking access to main roads and sometimes clashing with police in some of the largest demonstrations the city has seen in its history. But Hong Kong isn't just figh…

It has become fairly cliché to call Chinas surveillance stateits artificial intelligence-driven facial recognition, the new social credit system, its cultural policing and re-education camps for Uyghur minoritiessomething right out of George Orwells Nineteen …

The city of Suzhou, known as the Venice of the East for its web of intricate waterways, captured the imagination of Marco Polo when he journeyed through China more than seven centuries ago. Today its drawing attention for another grand project: a sprawling n…

BEIJING - The city of Suzhou, known as “the Venice of the East” for its web of intricate waterways, captured the imagination of Marco Polo when he journeyed through China more than seven centuries ago. Today it’s drawing attention for another grand project: …

(Bloomberg) --   The city of Suzhou, known as the Venice of the East for its web of intricate waterways, captured the imagination of Marco Polo when he journeyed through China more than seven centuries ago. Today its drawing attention for another grand proj…

Democracy is in decline worldwide, with authoritarianism on the rise in numerous nations, including China. So it is particularly encouraging that people peacefully marching can still have an impact, as they have in Hong Kong in recent days. Up to 2 million p…

Its like a scene out of a horror movie But pure reality! An elite primary school in Hangzhou, China is making its students wear brainwave-reading headbands that can supposedly detect their attention levels in the classroom. The practice was exposed in a ser…

The Zuckerberg Dossier Mark Zuckerberg is a Fraud Used by the CIA The following anonymous document claims to be written by a Facebook insider who was Mark Zuckerbergs lover from their freshman year at Harvard. Marks continuing indiscretions with his ongoing…

WeChat's data centralization has inextricably linked it to all aspects of daily life in China and made it a cornerstone of the government's social-credit system (Barclay Bram/Nautilus)

Police ruthlessly beating back protesters with batons and showering them with pepper spray in violent running battles.  Rounds of rubber bullets and tear gas fired into crowds of angry but until then peaceful demonstrators. The scenes this week in Hong Kong…