Arthur Waldron is director of Asian studies at the American Enterprise Institute and Lauder Professor of International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania.
Evidence from social science and history suggests that China is entering a “transition zone” that will threaten its capacity to maintain both authoritarian rule and high levels of economic growth.
Chinese authorities are wielding facial-recognition software, big-data analytics, and other digital technologies to control China’s citizens by monitoring and assessing their activities, both online and off.
