After months of mounting scrutiny of American companies' involvement with Chinese AI and surveillance technology, and particularly its deployment in Xinjiang, the spotlight has returned to Google with renewed pressure over its AI research partnerships. “Billionaire Tech Investor Peter Thiel...
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online...
Google may soon be facing an antitrust investigation in China, sources told Reuters on Wednesday, suggesting that financial damage to Chinese firms from recent U.S. trade policies could be the cause. The internet giant, which...
On Monday, Indian authorities announced a ban on dozens of Chinese apps including WeChat, Weibo, and TikTok. The official statement on the ban cited national security and consumer privacy, reflecting a broader global trend of...
Last year, leaked plans for "Project Dragonfly," a China-focused Google search product, triggered...
In recent months, Chinese tech workers have used the Microsoft-owned codesharing platform GitHub...
A stream of recent analysis and news coverage has continued to examine the development of advanced...
At Foreign Policy this week, Securing Democracy's Lindsay Gorman and Matt Schrader described how...
Last Friday saw the publication of "The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an...
News last year of Google's "Project Dragonfly," a censorship- and surveillance-enabled search...
In August The Intercept's Ryan Gallagher revealed that Google had been working in secret on a...
On Tuesday, the Washington Post's editorial board responded to the latest flurry of developments...
Freedom House released its annual "Freedom on the Net" report on Thursday with the subtitle "The...
At the WIRED 25 Summit on Monday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai commented on the company's plans,...
Last month, former SAPPRFT head Zhuang Rongwen took over from Xu Lin as head of the Cyberspace...
The ability to persistently link people’s identities and activities is a core theme of China’s...
This post refers specifically to one Chinese manufacturer of security keys, and to Google's...
A backlash has mounted in recent weeks following leaked news that Google has been preparing search...
Following a leak that revealed plans by Google to reenter China with a censored search engine,...
Google's controversial plan to relaunch a censored search engine in China--one that complies with...
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