TOKYO—A top Japanese government banker said China’s industrial strategy is “very dangerous” for democracies because totalitarian nations can ignore their citizens’ privacy and get an edge in new technologies. “A country like China, a more totalitarian regime, will perform better than the democratic countries,” said Tadashi Maeda, governor of the state-owned Japan Bank for International Cooperation, in an interview. “We have a lot of problems gathering big data because of the privacy issue. China doesn’t have such an issue....

Source: Wall Street Journal August 27, 2018 12:11 UTC