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Didi Kirsten Tatlow: On China's global tech dominance

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Didi Kirsten Tatlow, a specialist on China and the author of “China’s Quest for Foreign Technology: Beyond Espionage”, speaks about the historical reasons behind China's battle for global technological dominance, its newest techniques and most importantly about the threats that it raises to democratic societies.

In this interview, you will learn that:

  •  CCP is building up its technological capability, and the West is assisting it, without being fully aware.
  • There are not many ways to properly understand China without knowing Chinese
  • In some cases, such as Germany, it has already infiltrated in the state structures, causing the so-called elite capture.
  • The real issue is not economic relations with China but its normative influence and import of values.
  • Democracies are very open societies and therefore very easy to infiltrate.
  • We misunderstood China by thinking it would change after integrating into the open market. Instead, China seems to be changing us.
  • China uses media in a way that it is not clear that they are paid by the CCP.

    • Didi Kirsten Tatlow is a senior fellow at the Asia Program at the German Council of Foreign Relations (DGAP) in Berlin, Germany, and a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at Projekt Sinopsis in Prague, Czechia.

    The interview was recorded on May 31, 2021, and moderated by sinologist and journalist Kateřina Procházková, Sinopsis, Czech Republic.

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