Thread by @BaldingsWorld

So in professional news I am happy to announce that @that_data_chap and I have started the the think tank newkitedata.com. Our first report is on Chinese military civil fusion about the case of a private Chinese company using AI processing to manage data 1/n

Exfiltration from top secret US military projects, companies, and non-US institutions including government linked entities and universities. We are also proud to announce the China Data Project where will be releasing a series of reports in the coming weeks and months 2/n

About China and other data collection activities by authoritarian states. We will be working with other trusted researchers and institutions prioritizing researchers from Taiwan, Hong Kong, East Turkestan, and Tibet who feel the weight of authoritarian policies 3/n

At New Kite we are dismayed by the poor quality research from existing think tanks and universities from their poor quality data. We have spent considerable time assembling the most cutting edge suite of tools to both collect and rapidly analyze data for public consumption 4/n

We won't just argue over Chinese tech, we will show you what Chinese firms and policy decision makers are looking at. When you have a firms source code, you know what they are doing and they can't argue. The world is changing and how information about authoritarian threats 5/n

Is shown to the world needs to change. We won't be writing meaningless papers about the Chinese internet growth but show you how Chinese firms are acting on behalf of the state. So much more to come. Stay tuned.