Tag: china

• Chinese-Made Smartphones Are Secretly Stealing Money From People Around The World

  September 6, 2020

  It’s the latest example of how cheap Chinese smartphones take advantage of the world’s poorest people. Current security concerns about Chinese apps and hardware have largely focused on potential back… more ›

• WeChat (Part 1/2): A Not So Brief History

  September 6, 2020

  WeChat (Wēixìn/微信), developed by the Chinese internet giant, Tencent, is a SuperApp with origins as a messaging app. Today, WeChat contains messaging, social features, payments, travel booking, virtual doctors, and… more ›

• What China has to gain from Africa

  September 6, 2020

  DESIGN: QUARTZ/BÁRBARA ABBÊS. PHOTO: UNSPLASH/ EVA BLUE AND MACAU PHOTO AGENCYFrom our ObsessionBecause ChinaChina is striving for global leadership, and has the economic clout to realize its vision. https://qz.com/africa/1897036/what-china-has-to-gain-from-africa/ more ›

• China Secretly Built A Vast New Infrastructure To Imprison Muslims

  September 1, 2020

  China has secretly built scores of massive new prison and internment camps in the past three years, dramatically escalating its campaign against Muslim minorities even as it publicly claimed the detainees had… more ›

• What Is Elite TikTok?

  August 29, 2020

  “Elite TikTok is this weird group of chaos that these kids have made into a thing,” said Connie Yao, 22 and a talent manager for influencers in Sydney. As multinational… more ›

• The Sordid, Sudsy Rise of Soap in China

  August 23, 2020

  The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust soap back in the limelight: Of all the hypothesized solutions to viral transmission — from big data-powered contact tracing to disinfectant injections — few are… more ›

• For Whom the Tok Tiks

  August 8, 2020

  TikTok could persist in many ways in America. None is good. Updated at 11:15 p.m. ET on August 6, 2020. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/08/tiktok-microsoft-china/615007/ more ›

• New White Paper on China’s Full-Spectrum Information Operations

  July 28, 2020

  Today the Stanford Internet Observatory published a joint white paper with the Hoover Institution examining China’s covert and overt capabilities in the context of modern information operations. https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/new-whitepaper-telling-chinas-story more ›

• India, Jio, and the Four Internets

  July 26, 2020

  One of the more pernicious mistruths surrounding the debate about TikTok is that this will potentially lead to the splintering of the Internet; this completely erases the history of China’s… more ›

• AP Exclusive: Hair weaves from Chinese prison camps seized

  July 26, 2020

  Federal authorities in New York on Wednesday seized a shipment of weaves and other beauty accessories suspected to be made out of human hair taken from people locked inside a… more ›