Bill Gates discusses China's business policies, highlighting the country's requirements for foreign companies seeking access to its market - which includes setting up engineering jobs in China - and the lack of accountability due to the absence of an independent judicial system.
The danger of automated bureaucracy is that it is worse than a tyranny because it is totally automated, and your ability to get anything expunged is impossible.
Chinese investors make up a wealthy component of business people and elites that invest in US real estate as a means of putting their excess capital into a wise investment. However, it is rare for the general Chinese population to be able to afford US real estate due to the high standards required for real estate loans.
The development of smart cities, especially those funded and run by private companies, raise concerns over the influence of politics and democracy in the creation and administration of these technological hubs.
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has rejected many Chinese deals due to concerns about national security, which has sparked a backlash in China where regulators collected data on U.S. deals to rebalance the scale when and if the US wants to continue with bilateral investment.
The Chinese Communist Party's ability to use TikTok's surveillance capabilities to trend certain videos that would steer the United States in a certain direction is concerning. The discrepancy between the types of videos shown to kids in China versus the U.S. highlight the dangers of this platform's potential influence.