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Data colonialism: Where China and the West diverge

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In our very first #Forum2000online Chat Summer Special, three experts share their research and knowledge on topics of data technology. Didi Kirsten Tatlow, a researcher at the German Council on Foreign Relations, moderates the debate with Xiao Qiang, a renowned expert on U.S-China relationship and Editor-in-Chief of the China Digital Times, and Ulises Mejias, Communication Studies Professor and the author of a book on data colonization. Key takeaways:

  • What classical colonialism and data colonialism have in common is their function of extraction.
  • We all provide data on ourselves, for example with our purchases or online activity.
  • Xiao Qiang uses the term “digital authoritarianism” to describe a similar phenomenon in China.
  • Ulises Mejias describes the issue of data extraction in the US as “surveillance capitalism.”
  • The Chinese Communist Party is paying close attention to the activity of Chinese companies abroad.
  • In China, the potential of citizens to push back against the collection of their data is very limited.

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