residents in China will be required to pass facial recognition test for internet connection

12-20-18    The U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division John Demers said at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Dec. 12: “The [Chinese regime’s] playbook is simple:  Rob, replicate and replace.  Rob the American company of its intellectual property.  Replicate the technology.  And replace the American company in the Chinese market and one day in the global market.”…

  U.S.-based China affairs commentator Tang Jingyuan told the Epoch Times on Dec. 18:  “Most of the recruits of the Thousand Talents Program are naturalized Americans, [meaning that] they betray their own country by stealing advanced and unique American technologies and giving them China, a rival of the United States.  Then they use these technologies in Chinese industry and sell the products overseas.”

Tang said the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) hacks and steals technology from all around the world as a form of legal robbery, as well as forcing the transfer of technology from foreign companies operating in China.  Thousand Talents gives the CCP a roundabout method of acquiring advanced know-how.

  FBI Assistant Director Bill Priestap, told senators on Dec. 12 about the cyberespionage threat from China.  “I believe this is the most severe counterintelligence threat facing our nation today,” Priestap said.  “What hangs in the balance is not just the future of the U.S., but the future of the world.”  https://www.theepochtimes.com/how-the-thousand-talents-program-fits-into-beijings-strategy-of-stealing-us-technology_2745025.html

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10-3-19      as of December 1, residents in China will be required to pass a facial recognition test to apply for an internet connection via smartphone or computer.      https://reclaimthenet.org/china-face-id-test-to-get-online/

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11-5-19  Xi’s comments follow shortly after Chinese Communist Party elite signaled a tougher stance on Hong Kong, including during the fourth plenary session, a key political conclave, which concluded on Oct. 31.  According to the plenum communique, the Party discussed “establishing and perfecting a legal system and law enforcement mechanism” in Hong Kong to “safeguard national security.”  https://www.ntd.com/in-rare-meeting-chinas-xi-backs-carrie-lams-handling-of-hong-kong-protests_400852.html/amp

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10-28-19  “The so-called ‘modernization of the state governance system and governance capability’ is in actuality the CCP’s digital totalitarian system,” Tang Jingyuan, a U.S.-based commentator, said in an interview.  “It’s an announcement that the CCP won’t adopt democracy, freedoms or other universal values in China.”  https://www.theepochtimes.com/as-key-party-conclave-begins-chinese-leader-xi-rolls-out-new-governance-concept_3130200.html

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11-6-19   

Zhang Lifan: As things stand, this kind of hardline governance could become the system’s undoing, because the more it tries to shore up its rule, the less it may be able to actually hold on to power.  This kind of mentality, which places the interests of the Communist Party above those of the country and the people, is a dead end in my view.   https://en.tuidang.org/news/communist-ideology-in-education/2019/11/zhang-lifan-the-chinese-communist-partys-hardline-measures-could-be-its-undoing.html