The focus of China’s proposed Digital Identity proposal revolves around three key items: minimization of data sharing, user rights, and legal compliance, with data security being the fulcrum, an ...

In some ways it is surprising that China, a forceful surveillance state, did not roll out digital ID s earlier. Many ...

A legal expert in China warns that a national digital ID initiative could act as a way to monitor behaviour, comparing the draft plan to the health app introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic.

China has mastered the craft of policing the internet, operating one of the world’s most extensive online censorship and surveillance regimes. With mandatory identity checks on every online platform, ...

China will promote the digital economy and new information infrastructure under its Belt and Road Initiative, as the 10-year-old flagship multinational programme struggles with bad debts and ...

China’s plan to introduce a nationwide digital identification system has been met with criticism and privacy concerns in a country that already closely monitors and censors speech.

China's new national internet ID system, 'surveillance on steroids,' will track every click, post, and login, centralising ...

Last summer, the Chinese government released a proposal for a national internet ID system. The proposal was met with strong opposition, which was heavily censored online. (See CDT’s past coverage for ...

China on Tuesday kicked off a summit marking the 10th anniversary of its Belt and Road Initiative – an ambitious yet controversial undertaking to boost connectivity and trade across the world ...

From the initiative’s beginning in 2013 until 2021, China disbursed roughly $679 billion to 165 countries to fund infrastructure projects.

In 2024, China’s trade volume with partner countries in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) grew by 6.4 percent year-on-year, accounting for over half of China’s total trade volume for the ...