China and the multinational corporations

7-20-18    Uyghur detainees have been reporting suspicious medical tests for two decades,” Gutmann said.  And the blood and DNA testing of the population “was followed by the mass detention of Uyghurs.  Now there may be several uses for the DNA samples, including surveillance (of ‘health’—the Chinese official explanation).  But the blood tests?  That’s compatible with tissue matching for organ transplant.  One more number:  the Chinese Communist Party is building nine crematoriums in Xinjiang.  The first one, near Urumqi, just became operational.  And the Chinese are not hiring two or three security guards, as most crematoriums would.  They are hiring 50.”    https://www.theepochtimes.com/congressional-hearing-us-tech-giants-fueling-emerging-xinjiang-human-rights-disaster_2608128.html

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  In this vein the International Commission of Jurists’ policy report on corporate complicity and legal accountability envisions a scheme where corporations are liable when they enable, exacerbate or facilitate human rights abuses.[17]  http://www.mjilonline.org/chinese-corporations-liability-for-complicity-in-human-rights-abuses-in-xinjiang-region/

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7-27-18 Thermo Fisher Scientific, a Massachusetts company, has supplied the Chinese government with DNA sequencers that it is now using to collect the DNA of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, Human Rights Watch reports.  At a Thursday hearing Sen. Marco Rubio called Thermo Fisher's operations in Xinjiang "sick."

iFlyTek is a Chinese company that recently launched a 5-year partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Beijing has used iFlytek’s voice recognition technology "to develop a pilot surveillance system that can automatically identify targeted voices in phone conversations," according to Human Rights Watch.

Cisco in 2011participated in a Chinese public safety project that set up 500,000 cameras in Chongqing, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Yahoo in 2005 gave the personal information of a Chinese journalist to China's government.  That information was used to put the man in jail.   …

  Thermo Fisher Scientific stated:  "We design our products with great care and work with governments to contribute to good global policy.  We are proud to be a part of the many positive ways in which DNA identification has been applied — from reducing human trafficking to exonerating the unjustly accused.”  https://www.axios.com/china-us-technology-surveillance-state-5672b822-fdde-45f9-ac77-e7b5574e9351.html

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7-19-18    Beijing is exporting its surveillance expertise and equipment.  Among the recipients, Wright says, are Ethiopia, Iran, Sri Lanka, Russia, Thailand and Vietnam, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

"It's not a new ideology," Wright told Axios. "It's not like you are exporting Communism.  You are exporting a system of control.”  https://www.axios.com/ai-geopolitics-surveillance-nightmare-db613f44-0d3f-4496-8442-905c9a297658.html

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11-11-18    China International Import Expo (CIIE) at Shanghai brought thousands of foreign companies together with Chinese buyers in a bid to demonstrate the importing potential of the world's second-biggest economy.

  Deals for intelligence and high-end equipment were set to total $16.46 billion,

state media China Daily reported on its official Twitter-like Weibo site.https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/11/chinas-ciie-trade-expo-logs-deals-worth-billions-state-media.html

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10-23-18    The instruments, which use hi-tech sensors to monitor the underwater environment, are connected to the Ocean Network Canada (ONC), a grid of marine observatories stretching from the northeast Pacific to the Arctic.  While the network is operated by the University of Victoria in British Columbia, its four new additions are the property of the Sanya Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering (IDSSE), a unit of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which also developed and built them….   

  The ONC is primarily a scientific research facility, but it does also have a defense contract to help the Canadian military monitor Arctic waters with the help of a surveillance system powered by artificial intelligence technology, state broadcaster CBC News reported last year.   https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2169474/canada-installs-chinese-underwater-monitoring-devices-next-us

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