"A remarkable feature of the new leadership... is the disproportionate number of members with security-related backgrounds.... Who are these people, and what does their disproportionately large presence mean?" Check out @guoguang_wu's excellent analysis: discoursemagazine.com/politics/2022/… While I have your attention here, follow the legendary @guoguang_wu if you haven't already! His insightful paper on the inner working of the People's Daily inspired me to build an AI bot to watch China's Big Brother. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

📶Beijing's tech champions like #Huawei are willing accomplices of its surveillance state. The information age in which we live will only exacerbate the security threat. Democracies should continue to put their foot down on Chinese #telecoms.
thedispatch.com/p/chinas-telec… via @mercatus The power—and vulnerability—when the aggregated information from individuals are up for grab by bad actors. via @thedispatch