"Shanghai police are building a sweeping surveillance system which notifies authorities whenever foreign journalists book flights or train tickets to #Xinjiang.
"All this is made possible by connecting directly to Shanghai's Alibaba police cloud.
In March 2023, authorities in Songjiang District, Shanghai, announced that a local integrator had won a "Big Data" (大数据) software project for police worth ~$315,000 USD. Songjiang is one of Shanghai's largest districts with over 1.5 million residents.
Songjiang police are building 26 "modules" (模块) that create alerts for different categories of people/incidents by sorting through Shanghai's massive police database."
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My latest: #China passed amendments to counter-espionage law last week, prompting experts to raise concerns about the increased security risks for foreign individuals and businesses operating in the country. Feat: @tengbiao, @tomoko_ako and @dtiffroberts: dw.com/en/china-anti-…
The legislation bans the transfer of any information that's deemed related to national security. It, however, does not define what falls under China's national security or interests.
The revised law, which will come into effect in July, expands the definition of espionage, by including cyber attacks against state organs or critical information infrastructure, state news agency Xinhua reported.
"Foreign companies in China are walking a tightrope between their need for business intelligence to comply with proliferating U.S. sanctions and mounting concerns about the risks of carrying out the due diligence required for business in #China." wsj.com/articles/forei…
"Consultants and lawyers advising on doing business in China say they are working to address growing concerns about what the moves by Chinese authorities mean, and where the boundaries are when it comes to operations in China.
Many have been fielding questions and drafting memos on what China’s expanded anti-espionage law—updated last week to tighten state control over a wider swath of data and digital activities—means for their clients."
The director of America’s top spy agency warned lawmakers Thursday that Russia and #China will take advantage of the U.S. potentially defaulting on its debt, which the Treasury Department says could happen as early as June 1. cnbc.com/2023/05/04/rus…
“It would be almost a certainty that they would look to take advantage of the opportunity,” U.S. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said.
Haines said that Russia and China would attempt to highlight “the chaos within the United States, that we’re not capable of functioning as a democracy.”
After Canada floated the idea of expelling a Chinese diplomat for targeting family members of a Canadian lawmaker, #China’s embassy in Canada sternly warned that any diplomatic moves by Joly would be matched in lockstep by Beijing. news.yahoo.com/canada-weighs-…
“China strongly urges the Canadian side to immediately stop this self-directed political farce, not go further down the wrong and dangerous path,” a spokesperson for Ambassador Cong Peiwu, said in statement.
“Should the Canadian side continue to make provocations, China will play along every step of the way until the very end.”
"Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said the US can’t use military bases in his country for “offensive action” against #China in the event of a future war over #Taiwan." news.yahoo.com/us-t-philippin…
“I think we are in lockstep with the US with that,” Marcos said. “And that they understand the concerns that the Philippines has, and are sensitive to the reasons why we have those concerns.”
Marcos said the Biden administration had never raised the possibility that the military bases provided under an expanded defense cooperation agreement could become “staging areas for any offensive action against any country.”
Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says her government is assessing the likely consequences of expelling a Chinese diplomat accused of helping to target Conservative MP Michael Chong's family. cbc.ca/news/politics/…
"We're assessing different options, including the expulsion of diplomats, because it is important that we take a decision," Joly told the foreign affairs committee Thursday.
The minister said the government has summoned China's ambassador and is weighing the potential economic, consular and diplomatic consequences of taking punitive steps.
"This is about you, but it's also about the interest of the country," Joly told Chong.