In this podcast episode Dr Michael Frick, author of “Chinese Industry 4.0 Designing high-tech solutions under the cybersecurity regime of the People’s Republic of China” and I talk about Online Content Management - censorship - which is the bedrock of the Chinese Cybersecurity Regime.

We discuss the Chinese approach to censorship and how it differs from the Western stance on what and how information can be presented and shared online, and why this different approach makes sense from Chinese perspective.

We discuss what it means for organisations who want to do business in China, how censorship in China is governed, and the mechanisms through which it is enacted and enforced and what it means when you ‘mess up’.

We talk about the fact that only 2% of Chinese internet users use censorship evasion tools and the Chinese netizens’ stance to censorship.

We conclude by explaining that for the Chinese government all it comes down to is: first preserving and expanding power, second economic development. Also that for organisations who want to operate China there is no half way house, but only the decision between whether to not enter the market at all or fully comply: every organisation will have to make this decision in light of their mission and values.

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Background info

The 3 T’s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/china-1989-tiananmen-square-protests-demonstration-massacre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeFzeNAHEhU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan#Political_and_legal_status

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_independence_movement

Eye roll incident

https://makeagif.com/i/uDC3dz

https://www.ifj.org/es/centro-de-medios/noticias/detalle/category/press-releases/article/china-two-journalists-lose-peoples-congress-accreditation-over-eye-roll.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBbv1E2wTt8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUKbt2wKfK8

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Michael D Frick holds a doctorate in Business Economics and a master’s in Modern Sinology. He works as consultant advising businesses on Chinese regulatory aspects.

You can find out more about his book “Chinese Industry 4.0” at: https://sinopeerpress.com/

The book is available as ebook and in print format at Apple or Amazon.

Michael can be contacted via Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-michael-frick-16853a1b or via email mailto:[email protected]

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