China’s Ruling Party Trials Virtual Reality Tests of Members’ Loyalty

Ng Yik-tung, Sing Man and Xi Wang  |  Radio Free Asia The ruling Chinese Communist Party is trialing a system in the eastern province of Shandong that claims to identify which of its members are showing symptoms of flagging loyalty, or whose ideological game needs work, using virtual reality (VR). Using a VR environment developed […]

China Retaliates Against Uyghur Exiles Abroad and Their Relatives at Home

Warren Mass  |  The New American This article was published on The New American on 05 January 2016 Chinese Uyghurs — members of an ethnic population from Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwest China who have been implicated by the Chinese government in several train station bombings and knife attacks — who have gone abroad […]

30,000 New Surveillance Cameras for Beijing

<!–[CDATA[Lu Chen  |  Epoch Times In China, Big Brother is watching you, and in Beijing he just got more eyes to improve his vision. According to a May 25 report by state-run Beijing News, the capital’s police forces installed 30,000 new security cameras, ostensibly to crack down on criminal activity. The new system, building upon hundreds […]