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By leveraging state-owned enterprises (SOEs), Chinese technology companies and partnerships with foreign partners—including Western universities—the CCP is building a massive and global data-collection ecosystem. aspi.org.au/report/enginee…
For the party-state, leveraging bulk data collection, as well as, smart city and AI technologies provides valuable tools for shaping global governance so that public sentiment is favorable to the CCP’s own interests—not simply China’s or the Chinese people’s, but globally.
A case study of Global Tone Communications Technology Co. Ltd (GTCOM) illustrates how the global expansion of the party’s tech-enhanced authoritarianism can work. GTCOM is a subsidiary of a Chinese state-owned enterprise that the Central Propaganda Department directly supervises. 
Looking at one internment camp in #Xinjiang...the “soccer fields” like the “basketball courts” are all a sham. How many total people are in these shots alone? Images from late 2017, 2018 and 2019.
From May 2017. The "grass" is...?
What kind of material?
Why was the Fusion GPS header stripped from Nellie Ohr's thumb drive? Thumb drive was entered into "evidence". How much of this "evidence" was used against the Trump camp? thefederalist.com/2019/08/08/new…
5/3/17 Steele told Ohr "business is good". What business is he referring to? Steele was worried about Comey's testimony, "especially his response to questions that would be raised by Grassley. Steele was concerned about anything Comey would say..." But was "happy" w/his response.
Steele must have been happy with Comey's "response" to this concerning question...
