Prof Jennifer Lind discusses her new book, Autocracy 2.0: How China’s Rise Reinvented Tyranny, and how China has become a major technological power.
Jennifer Lind’s new book Autocracy 2.0: How China’s Rise Reinvented Tyranny tackles the question of how China has become a major technological power, confounding expectations in much of the West that its authoritarian system would stifle innovation. Using the concept of ‘smart authoritarianism’, she analyzes how the Chinese Communist Party has been able to retain its grip on power even while fostering world-class innovation, in turn allowing China to become a peer competitor to the United States. Lind is an associate professor of government at Dartmouth, where she specializes in the international relations of East Asia and U.S. foreign policy towards the region.
"Technologies of repression have really advanced… When we look at the CCP’s strategies, the advent of AI and facial recognition has been huge in terms of permitting low-intensity repression. We’re also seeing a movement toward the use of biometrics, which is really scary"
Read the full article HERE, at The Wire China.