"For Chinese companies like Shenzhen-listed Hikvision," reported SCMP, "the world’s largest supplier of surveillance equipment, Xinjiang’s booming security apparatus is a major windfall. In China's high-tech surveillance state, everything is connected. China's surveillance machine is an interwoven mix of networking equipment manufacturers, video surveillance technology companies, smartphone app developers and glitzy AI 'unicorns' that have been part-funded by the West. And whilst 'doing more' should include sanctions against key Chinese officials, the politicians also demanded that U.S. companies stop collaborating with China's surveillance state machine and that U.S. financial institutions stop funding Chinese technology companies, including AI unicorns, whose systems power Xinjiang. subsidized Chinese surveillance equipment.

Source: Forbes May 22, 2019 03:26 UTC