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Interview: Josh Chin on China’s Surveillance State

The CCP has become synonymous with surveillance. On an increasingly authoritarian trajectory, Xi Jinping has bet his and the Party’s longevity on its ability to not only neutralize challenges to authority but also anticipate...

China’s Internet: A Giant Cage

This week’s edition of The Economist features an epic special report by Gady Epstein on social, political, commercial, technical and international aspects of China’s Internet. From his introduction: THIRTEEN YEARS...

China’s All-Seeing Eye

In Rolling Stone, anti-globalization activist Naomi Klein has a lengthy article in which she looks at the new high-tech modes of surveillance being used by the Chinese government and the role played by American corporations:...

Ma Jian: China’s Internet dictatorship

In the Korea Herald, Ma Jian writes: Since April 15 of this year, the Golden Shield’s advanced science and technology has been monitoring every thought and action of those Chinese people who use the Internet. But what Orwell failed to predict is that China’s government has accomplished this with the help of Western democracies. Today, […]

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