Absolutely must-read!
Economic planning and societal control: The digital transformation is changing the rules of the game in the global systemic competition. China's determined pursuit of a "digital Leninism" presents a major challenge to liberal market economies and democratic political systems.
MERICS — Mercator Institute for China Studies
Big Data reshapes China's approach to governance
Sebastian Heilmann
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Sebastian Heilmann is the founding president of the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) and professor for the political economy of China at the University of Trier (currently on leave). Heilmann also conducted research at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center, the University of Oxford China Centre, and the Harvard-Yenching Institute. He has published extensively on China’s political system, economic policy making, and international relations.
Heilmann has years of experience providing advice to the German federal government and EU institutions. From 2010 to 2013, he was the principal investigator of a project group funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research examining the industrial and technology policies of the People’s Republic of China. In 2014, he was appointed as one of 15 German representatives to the German-Chinese Dialogue Forum, which fosters non-governmental exchanges and bilateral confidence-building.
Sebastian Heilmann omits to mention the huge share of big government data about Chinese citizens represented by radiofrequency surveillance of the citizens in and outside their home as well as the RF data established by RF interference with the brains of (many) target persons.
ReplyDeleteThis is a serious omission, as the huge amount of partly secret government radiofrequency surveillance of and interference with the citizens brains extends beyond the borders of China. Indeed, it is not a particular Chinese phenomenon occurring basically everywhere on the planet.