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 ...

This all has implications for the rents derived from China’s torrents of data and who gets them. In principle the digital ID harms the interests of private-sector internet platforms—not that ...

ASEAN, under Malaysia’s current chairmanship, is establishing the ASEAN AI Safety Network (AI Safe) to promote ethical ...

Digital ID Fits Into China's Blockchain Strategy China launched RealDID in December 2023 to verify identities of its 1.4 billion citizens through blockchain technology.

China is leading the global trend towards cyber sovereignty, a norm based on the use of technology to control what sort of information can be accessed and exchanged within a national boundary and ...

China's Digital Silk Road (DSR) initiative aims to develop a global digital ecosystem with China at its centre, focusing on e-commerce, finance, industrial digitalisation, quantum computing and AI.