Social Credit: Orwellian Nightmare, or “Crude Tool”?
China’s emerging social credit system has attracted an exceptional level of attention and...
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Minitrue: Stop Showing “Amazing China” Film
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Facial Recognition Adoption Raises Eyebrows
This week’s Economist looks at the global growth of facial recognition technology, of which...
China Denies Plan to Block VPNs by February 2018
On Monday, Bloomberg reported that Beijing had instructed state-run telecommunications carriers to...
Great Firewall Curbs Innovation and Commerce
Time’s Hannah Beech reports that academic scholars in China are becoming increasingly...
Chinese Internet Giant Baidu Starts to Dream
MIT Technology Review’s Robert D. Hof profiles Baidu’s new chief scientist Andrew Ng...
Happy Anniversary to China’s [Censored] Internet
Marking the 20th anniversary this week of the Internet’s arrival in China as major Chinese tech...
Yutu’s Fate Unclear as China’s Space Program Rises
New Scientist’s Jacob Aron reports that China’s Jade Rabbit moon rover has been...
China’s Ten Most Innovative Companies
In its annual innovation issue, Fast Company counters the common assumption that China is not a...
Censorship and Innovation in China’s Social Media
As has been noted by prominent users and statistically proven by recent studies, the social...
Chinese Innovators An Asset To Foreign Companies
Gwynn Guilford reports in Quartz that while China plans to become “an...
Supercomputer Marks China’s Growing Tech Prowess
The Guardian kicks off a series on China’s prospects for science and innovation by...
Taking the West’s Technology, Leaving its Freedoms
In her latest “Letter from China,” the New York Times’ Didi Kirsten Tatlow provides an overview of the newly released book Chinese Industrial Espionage: Technology Acquisition and Military Modernisation....
Chinese Supercomputer Poised to Take No. 1 Ranking
A new supercomputer based in Changsha is likely to be ranked the world’s fastest later this month, reclaiming a crown briefly held by China’s Tianhe-1A in 2010. The new system has exceeded 30 petaflops (quadrillion...
Lenovo Looks Ahead From Atop PC World
The Economist details the rise of Chinese computer giant Lenovo, from its humble start in a guard shack to the growing pains that followed its 2005 acquisition of IBM’s corporate PC division: Given all this, its recent...
The Argument For Chinese Innovation
The New York Times’ Thomas Friedman checks in from “AliFest” in Hangzhou, an annual gathering of Chinese entrepreneurs sponsored by Chinese e-commerce site Alibaba.com, and discusses how China may be changing...
Facebook, China and Innovation
As Facebook made its stock market debut on Friday morning, and with observers wondering if and when the company will attempt to enter the China market, The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos stepped back from the flurry of Chinese...
One Click Forward, Two Back
Caixin has a pessimistic assessment of China’s Internet industry, which it says is in a “state of chaos”: In the coming three to five years, three trends will determine the direction of innovation on the...
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