Valentin Weber
@weberv.bsky.social
Senior Cyber Research Fellow @dgap.org | Biweekly brief on China's technological control at home & influence abroad: https://chinatechnosphere.substack.com
A few weeks ago @rightscon.org in Lusaka was cancelled due to Chinese pressure. Here is my take on how China built up its technological influence in #Zambia and where it stands currently. chinatechnosphere.substack.com/p/how-china-... @accessnow.org , @dgap.org
How China Built its Technosphere in Zambia
China: Technosphere provides a biweekly deep-dive into China’s technological control at home and influence abroad.
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Chinese companies provide #emotion-recognition systems that remotely analyze facial and neck muscle vibrations in crowds to identify abnormal psychological states. Read more in this week's #China:Technosphere chinatechnosphere.substack.com/p/how-china-...
How China Protects National Security Facilities
China: Technosphere provides a biweekly deep-dive into China’s technological control at home and influence abroad.
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„In modernen Autos fallen atemberaubend viel sensible Daten an." Bewegungsdaten werden zu „hoch aussagekräftigen Profilen" verknüpft. Auf Risiken machten @gruene-bundestag.de seit mehreren Jahren aufmerksam, die #Bundesregierung habe sie viel zu lang ignoriert, so @konstantinnotz.bsky.social 👇
For years, #China has quietly expanded its technological footprint in the #MiddleEast, and now, these systems may offer Beijing insights into the current actions of the #UnitedStates on the ground. open.substack.com/pub/chinatec...
In the UAE, Chinese Surveillance Cameras Track Iran War Developments
China: Technosphere provides a biweekly deep-dive into China’s technological control at home and influence abroad.
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In our new op-ed Myf Ma and I propose that the #Taiwanese government should initiate a discussion about constructing the world’s first national #mesh network with the purpose of increasing digital resilience. www.taipeitimes.com/News/editori...
National mesh network an option - Taipei Times
Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan
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As #Chinese machine patrolling solutions scale and interconnect, #autonomous units increasingly operate under an emerging machine-led #command and #control structure.
✍️ Chapter 4 The Shenzhen Effect: China’s Export of Authoritarianism and What to Do About It by @weberv.bsky.social How is China exporting its digital technology, and what kind of impacts does this transfer of expertise and infrastructure have on human rights?
Excited to share this report on "China's Embodied AI" that William Hannas, Huey-Meei Chang, Daniel Chou and I co-authored for @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social cset.georgetown.edu/publication/...
China’s Embodied AI: A Path to AGI | Center for Security and Emerging Technology
China is embracing “embodied AI”—artificial intelligence integrated with physical agents, such as robots and drones—both for commercial reasons and as a path to artificial general intelligence (AGI). ...
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CSET@csetgeorgetown.bsky.social · 8mo ago⭐️New Report⭐️ China is embracing “embodied AI”—artificial intelligence integrated with physical agents, such as robots and drones—both for commercial reasons and as a path to artificial general intelligence (AGI). Read more in our new analysis ⬇️ cset.georgetown.edu/publication/...
China Is Racing to Draw the World Into Its #AI Sphere #Guangxi, for its part, is becoming China's AI hub for ASEAN. This is China's first step in a wider global AI push. TikTok meanwhile appears tied to Qi An Xin, a firm with #PLA links. chinatechnosphere.substack.com/p/how-china-...
China Is Racing to Draw the World Into Its AI Sphere (Part I)
China: Technosphere provides a biweekly deep-dive into China’s technological control at home and influence abroad.
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Part II of my analysis on China’s Lianyungang Forum is out. It breaks down how the Forum’s Global Public Security Index pushes China’s security agenda, using biased rankings based on a survey by Dataway, a firm tied to UFWD work on Xinjiang/Tibet. chinatechnosphere.substack.com/p/lianyungan...
Lianyungang: China's Blueprint for an Alternative Global Security Architecture (Part II)
China: Technosphere provides a biweekly deep-dive into China’s technological control at home and influence abroad.
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Just as China’s approach to cyber operations has developed, so has its counter-attribution strategy. Western attribution strategies haven’t kept pace, argues @weberv.bsky.social in his latest for Binding Hook: bindinghook.com/chinas-attri...
China’s attribution strategy has changed; it’s time for us to catch up
To effectively counter Chinese efforts, Western countries and their partners must adapt by expanding joint attribution, broadening global audiences, and pre-empting disinformation narratives.
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„Sicherheit ist kein Zustand, sondern ein Prozess“, so Bundesminister der Verteidigung Boris Pistorius in seiner Videobotschaft anlässlich unserer Zentrumseröffnung. Sein Wunsch an das Zentrum ist es, „einen Raum für kritische & faktenfokussierte Debatten“ anzubieten.
The Lianyungang Forum is #China's blueprint for an alternative global #security architecture. The Forum has been taking place since 2015 and gathers hundreds of #police and government officials from across the world in China. Here is my analysis of it 👇 chinatechnosphere.substack.com/p/lianyungan...
Lianyungang: China's Blueprint for an Alternative Global Security Architecture (Part I)
China: Technosphere provides a biweekly deep-dive into China’s technological control at home and influence abroad.
chinatechnosphere.substack.com
In our new @dgap.org memo, Maria Pericàs Riera and I lay out what #Europe should do to mitigate the risks emanating from connected vehicles. dgap.org/en/research/...
Connected Vehicle Cybersecurity: The EU Must Consider Non-technical Risk Factors
Assessing the trustworthiness of the country of origin of battery management systems is especially important for overall system security.
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Soon you’ll watch horror movies and go to Halloween parties. But real horror is out there. Chinese “smart prisons” show tech control at its peak—and the same monitoring systems are spreading to elderly care and military sites worldwide. #Surveillance chinatechnosphere.substack.com/p/you-might-...
You Might be Already Wearing Chinese Smart Prison Technology
China: Technosphere provides a biweekly deep-dive into China’s technological control at home and influence abroad.
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Few at IBM may have anticipated that introducing the concept of smart cities to China would eventually lead to the emergence of smart military camps (智慧军营). Yet, that is precisely what happened. open.substack.com/pub/chinatec...
The American Origins of China's Smart Military Camps
China: Technosphere provides a biweekly deep-dive into China’s technological control at home and influence abroad.
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„Die jüngsten Cyberangriffe auf 🇪🇺 Flughäfen sind eine erneute Mahnung: 🇩🇪 muss unabhängiger von 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇳 Technologie werden“, schreibt @weberv.bsky.social im Handelsblatt- Gastbeitrag. Er skizizziert darin vier Ansätze für mehr technologische Souveränität. 📰👇
Handelsblatt
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The Chinese Communist Party is dreaming an authoritarian techno-dream that is a democrat’s nightmare: ever more fine-grained state control made possible by using AI networks to pry and spy everywhere. But human unpredictability remains a force the party-state cannot tame. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
My essay "China's AI-Powered Surveillance State" is out today in @jodemocracy.bsky.social. #AI may boost CCP control, but human unpredictability remains its Achilles' heel. Read it here (free until Oct 30): muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Project MUSE - China's AI-Powered Surveillance State
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Issue #2 of China: Technosphere is out 🎯 Read the full post to find out what the #BRI Cybersecurity Strategy is about what China's motives are as well as how Anxinsec and Huawei cooperate to build a Silk Road Technology Ecosystem. 👇 substack.com/home/post/p-...
New: @aylinmatle.bsky.social & @weberv.bsky.social argue that it would be in Germany’s interests to supply arms to Taiwan, as it struggles with the effects of late and insufficient US deliveries. ip-quarterly.com/en/case-berl...
The Case for Berlin Supplying Arms to Taipei
Taiwan is struggling with the effects of late and insufficient US weapons deliveries, which are making it more vulnerable. It would be in Germany’s interest to step in.
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Our new article w @aylinmatle.bsky.social "The Case for Berlin Supplying Arms to Taipei" was published in the @ipq.bsky.social. Taiwan is struggling with the effects of insufficient and late US #weapons deliveries. It would be in the interest of Germany to step in. ip-quarterly.com/en/case-berl...
📢 China: Technosphere Just Launched 📢 The first issue of my new biweekly Substack brief explores #China's border surveillance infrastructure that can detect #submarines as well as fleeing #dissidents. chinatechnosphere.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
Welcome to China: Technosphere
This week: How China monitors its borders
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In ihrem Memo setzen sich unser Senior Research Fellow @weberv.bsky.social & Ferdinand Gehringer von der KAS mit der aktiven Cyberabwehr in 🇩🇪 auseinander. Sie empfehlen der Bundesregierung, eine Reaktionstoolbox zu entwickeln, die geeignete Maßnahmen bündelt und deren Chancen & Risiken aufzeigt.
Aktive Cyberabwehr: Von der Wirkung zur Toolbox
Die neue Bundesregierung will in dieser Legislaturperiode den Grundstein für eine erweiterte aktive Cyberabwehr legen. Entscheidend bei diesem Prozess ist, zunächst die angestrebte Wirkung klar zu ben...
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🚨 Launching Sept 3 China:Technosphere, my new biweekly brief — built for those interested in understanding how China controls at home and influences abroad. At the intersection of national security and technology.🔔Subscribe now to get the first issue: chinatechnosphere.substack.com/welcome
China: Technosphere | Valentin Weber | Substack
China: Technosphere provides a biweekly (or so) deep-dive into China's control at home and influence abroad. Click to read China: Technosphere, by Valentin Weber, a Substack publication. Launched 7 da...
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