An easier to read summary -

China’s technology transfers and their impacts -

Key Focus: The article examines whether Chinese technology transfers, specifically from Huawei, help recipient governments expand digital surveillance and repression. The study focuses on Huawei as it’s the world’s largest telecommunications provider and has significant data available about its transfers.

Main Findings: The effects of Huawei technology transfers depend heavily on the recipient country’s political institutions:

In autocracies: Transfers lead to increased digital surveillance, internet shutdowns, internet filtering, and targeted arrests for online content In democracies: No clear or consistent evidence of increased digital repression

Key Data Points: Study covers 153 Huawei projects worth approximately $1.6 billion Spans 64 countries between 2000-2017 About 90% of projects by value are in the communications sector Asia and Africa account for over 85% of total transfers

What Drives Huawei Transfers: Market size (population) Demand for low-cost telecommunications Prior relationships with China through aid Notably, transfers are NOT primarily driven by:

Natural resource endowments Regime type Political instability

Important Context: China has developed sophisticated domestic surveillance capabilities Huawei often incorporates technologies from smaller Chinese firms Technology transfers are “dual-use” - they can be used for both legitimate development and repression

Why Different Effects in Democracies vs. Autocracies:

Different Motivations: Autocracies: Often seek technology to control dissent and prevent collective action Democracies: More likely to use technology for public goods and economic development

Different Constraints: Democracies: Have institutional guardrails (courts, media, civil society) that limit misuse Autocracies: Fewer checks and balances on government power

Limitations of the Study:

• Difficulty measuring digital repression
• Secrecy around Huawei contracts may lead to incomplete data
• Lack of detailed information about specific transfer provisions

The research suggests that while Chinese technology transfers can enable digital repression, this outcome isn’t inevitable - it depends significantly on the recipient country’s existing political institutions and oversight mechanisms.

Yea. I paused mine for a while and when I returned I saw it had been somehow active enough to be liking shit I didn’t like.

The irony of gen X believing in X.

The Chinese are pretty heartless about the homeless from my own personal interactions with them on the topic. They call them pitiful and call the police on them if they’re in plain sight. And if you ask a general Beijinger about the homeless in China they’re super blasé about the answer and brush it off on family needing to step up and take care, how the mainland is building affordable housing (and maybe they are idk), or how everyone with limbs should be able to work. The attitude is very conservative against homeless from what I have seen. I liked my tripto Beijing but China isn’t all roses and sunshine.

Maybe apply DOGE to this mf

I hope somewhere down the line history books remember this time of darkness and attribute a majority of it to the international proliferation of Russian misinformation.

How did they not see this coming and have something in place? Not to victim blame. I’m just like, if you are in a position of leadership in yor nation’s security how did you not strategize this scenario coming up? Either way, please isolate us (the US). We fucking deserve to lose leverage.

I went to Beijing and noticed young people in the stores and coffee shops who worked there sometimes would put red armbands when they saw me. It felt creepy. It’s a shame their culture has been so shaped by authoritarianism. (Obviously it’s not just China that has this issue, btw). Ultimately the majority of the people I met were absolutely lovely. Truly terrifying experience Junjie had. Poor kid. Definitely can see that shit happening there, though.

Cool, cool. More jobs to disappear.

Yea. Def not the end solution. I keep encouraging people to get on Pixelfed and Mastadon.

I’m leaving Meta fully this year. I think that platform is in for a rude awakening.

500 billion… of H1B1 visas. Great work, MAGAs.

Lol I uhh… when I was a teenager I was taking them a lot. One fine night I was admiring the full moon from a park by my house and then it popped into my head that the full beautiful bright moon might also be a meteor coming in for the kill. Worst trip ever, lol. I haven’t done a full dose since. That being said, I did micro dose on a chill countryside trip to Colombia and that was ok.

It’s time to make Pixel-fed cool, damnit.

There was a pause?

edit: Huh… a pause from May 2024. Wouldn’t have known with everything else we’ve been sending them. But, all in all it seems like awful Bibi is getting what he wanted. A fully hobbled US government and all the weapons his rotten sould wants. Great.

I’ve heard raving reviews with some of my friends on mushrooms. I am currently on lexapro. The initial dosage wasn’t doing shit for me but this new adjustment seems to perhaps be lifting the curtain. If all else fails I’ll give mushrooms a try.

Cool. Cool. So if he succeeds in revoking birthright, I guess none of us belong here. Though, I know that’s not what the white supremacists mean.

Thank you, love.

Thank you. Definitely hear that on the western medicine model. Hoping I’m not medicine resistant but a lot of my friends are. Honestly, not looking for a miracle. Just some friggin wiggle room.