The NY Times has this top-notch piece today explaining how Chinese government-related entities may help Myanmar’s military rulers stiffle all dissent by helping to build Myanmar’s own version of China’s Great Firewall. It turns out that Huawei and ZTE built much of Myanmar’s telecommunications network. And surveillance cameras made by Huawei have gone up in the country’s biggest cities. A top cybersecurity official recently showed off photos of such road monitoring technology on his personal Facebook page.
China has developed these capabilities as part of its Digital Silk Road program. And it’s doing similar things in countries around the world.
