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The Answer to China’s Totalitarianism Is Trusted Tech

The Hon. Keith Krach

02.19.22

Source: The National Interest

China Cybersecurity Data privacy
The Answer to China’s Totalitarianism Is Trusted Tech

New models promise to usher in an industrial era where China’s technology hegemony is broken and citizens of free countries worldwide can communicate without the fear that an authoritarian state has visibility—and control—over what they are saying.

When the world’s top athletes arrived in Beijing for the Winter Olympics, the coal-fueled smog had been cleared, but there was still a cloud hanging over the Olympic Village. Despite the desire to tweet and post to Instagram and Facebook, the athletes had been warned by security experts that their devices are vulnerable to Chinese hacking, compromise, infection.