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The tech allows students to generate personalized stories on China’s “holistic approach to national security” – a framework advocated by President Xi covering areas from politics and economy to ecology and technology.

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Internet infrastructure policy is increasingly a topic of discussion in military strategy and policy decision-making.

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Room to protest is narrowing across much of the African continent, as governments lean on arrests, curfews, and internet blackouts to blunt dissent.
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as news are surfacing that the Trump administration is attempting to strip Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of citizenship.

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The Norway-based multinational telecom company Telenor is facing charges for its role in turning over sensitive customer data to the military government of Myanmar.

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In Togo, demonstrations and opportunities for civil disobedience are drying up as the government cracks down on civil society. But the people will not remain silent.

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The current Chinese big tech governance model stems from decades of stability-control experience aimed at securing the single-party regime through censorship, surveillance, party-building, and ideological control.
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"This infrastructure is largely laid on trans-Atlantic slave ship and oil extraction routes, algorithmically bound by a legacy of colonial violence and exploitative labor practices."

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The controversial reciprocal trade agreements give the U.S. a great deal of power, which could adversely affect digital connectivity, increase digital divides, and reduce economic growth in signatory countries.

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This uneven distribution of connectivity will hinder civil society organizations seeking to recruit new members from demographics different from their existing base.

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DoD’s public document describes Alibaba as indirectly affiliated with China State Council's supervision body, and a “military-civil fusion contributor to the Chinese defense industrial base”.

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