Tag: china
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China’s Artificial Intelligence Surveillance State Goes Global – The Atlantic
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The Panopticon Is Already Here Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe. via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/china-ai-surveillance/614197/ By 2030, AI supremacy might be within range for China. The country will likely have the world’s largest economy, and new money to spend on…
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Inside Jimmy Lai’s Apple Daily During Hong Kong’s Media Crackdown – The New York Times
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‘We Will Persevere’: A Newspaper Faces the Weight of Hong Kong’s Crackdown (Published 2020) Apple Daily, a pro-democracy paper known for celebrity gossip and hard-hitting investigations, has become a target in Beijing’s new national security law in Hong Kong. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/world/asia/hong-kong-apple-daily-jimmy-lai.html?ref=oembed Apple Daily, a pro-democracy paper known for celebrity gossip and hard-hitting investigations, has become…
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China’s Arrest of a Free-Speech Icon Backfires in Hong Kong | The New Yorker
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China’s Arrest of a Free-Speech Icon Backfires in Hong Kong The arrest of the tycoon and democracy activist Jimmy Lai has reinvigorated defiance rather than demoralize his supporters. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/chinas-arrest-of-a-free-speech-icon-backfires-in-hong-kong Last September, when I was in Hong Kong reporting on the anti-government protests engulfing the city, I spent an afternoon in the…