Skip to content
China Factor
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Analysis
  • China-US Tension
  • Geopolitics
  • Between The Lines
  • Deep Dive
  • About

Digital Authoritarianism

Digital surveillance underpins China’s Covid policy

December 27, 2021December 24, 2021 by Liu Manyi

Critics fear Beijing will export a new model of ‘technological authoritarianism’ globally

Categories Analysis Tags ChinaFactor, Covid-19 Crisis, Digital Authoritarianism, Echowall, Information Protection Law, News, State Agencies Leave a comment

China’s high-tech spies that stay out in the cold

November 12, 2021October 29, 2021 by Ausma Bernot

But Beijing is not alone in exporting ‘authoritarian technology’ in the form of digital surveillance systems

Categories Analysis Tags China, Digital Authoritarianism, Europe, Freedoms, News, Technology, The Conversation, United States Leave a comment

Top Stories

  • Reflections on the face-off between China and the US
  • Global race is on to meet the Climate Clock deadline
  • China’s ghost in the machine is haunting ASML 
  • Alleged tech theft and the rise of China’s CXMT 
  • Evolution, not revolution, is China’s energy goal
© 2026 China Factor • Built with GeneratePress