Today, I'm joined by Rogier Creemers, Assistant Professor in China Studies at Leiden University, and the Co-editor of Law and the Party in China: Ideology and Organisation and by Josh Chin of the China Bureau at the Wall Street Journal, who is also the co-author with Lisa Lin of the new book, Surveillance State, China's quest to launch a new era of social control.

This episode of The Future of You covers:

The macro context, discussing the geopolitical economic and trade situation
Technology transfer, highlighting the issues over semiconductors, and China's ambition to play a bigger role in the global economy and technology.
Mass surveillance at a personal and even biological level of Chinese citizens, predominantly, but not exclusively, by the Uyghurs.
The social credit system, and both the Chinese and Western understandings and perhaps misunderstandings of that.
The Supreme People's Court blacklist system
The regulation of algorithms
The nature of authoritarianism versus personal autonomy.
Why Chinese culture contains no such notion of autonomy

The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology?: www.amazon.co.uk/Future-You-Identity-21st-Century-Technology-ebook/dp/B08XBN4GBB

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