The focus of China’s proposed Digital Identity proposal revolves around three key items: minimization of data sharing, user rights, and legal compliance, with data security being the fulcrum, an ...

In some ways it is surprising that China, a forceful surveillance state, did not roll out digital ID s earlier. Many ...

A legal expert in China warns that a national digital ID initiative could act as a way to monitor behaviour, comparing the draft plan to the health app introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Beijing is moving to crack down on the use of facial recognition by private companies, while preparing to roll out its ...

China has mastered the craft of policing the internet, operating one of the world’s most extensive online censorship and surveillance regimes. With mandatory identity checks on every online platform, ...

China will promote the digital economy and new information infrastructure under its Belt and Road Initiative, as the 10-year-old flagship multinational programme struggles with bad debts and ...

China’s plan to introduce a nationwide digital identification system has been met with criticism and privacy concerns in a country that already closely monitors and censors speech.

From the initiative’s beginning in 2013 until 2021, China disbursed roughly $679 billion to 165 countries to fund infrastructure projects.

L IKE LORD VOLDEMORT from Harry Potter, “Made in China 2025” is an initiative which induces so much fear and loathing abroad that Chinese officials dare not speak its name. The plan ...

The Biden administration ended the China Initiative in February 2022 after a strategic review determined that it fueled a “harmful perception” of bias in Justice Department investigations and ...

In 2024, China’s trade volume with partner countries in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) grew by 6.4 percent year-on-year, accounting for over half of China’s total trade volume for the ...