Weekly Topic: Global Social Media: CHINA
Today, China has the worldâs only internet companies that can match Americaâs in ambition and reach.
The Chinese Internet ecosystem
There are a lot of unique technology in China since China is the most high-tech country in the world. One of the famous unique technology in China are the Chinese internet ecosystem. The Chinese internet ecosystem are unique because it has their own platform. For instance, instead of using WhatsApp, China are using WeChat and Tencent QQ, instead of using TikTok, China are using Douyin, instead of using Facebook and Twitter China are using Sina Weibo (Ho et al. 2019). The reason why china has their own internet ecosystem is because it is easy for their government to control their people and the government do not want their people to be influenced by other country such as U.S.
Is Chinaâs AI technology the answer to the future?
Chinaâs artificial intelligence technology might be the answer for leading the innovative world. According to Jing & Dai (2018), china has invested in artificial intelligence such as cloud and big data, smart cars, quantum and high-performance computing, leading electronic materials, strategies technologies, smart robotics and smart medical devices. The development of artificial intelligence (AI) or technologies which perform tasks that are characteristic of human intelligence such as understand language, recognising objects and sound has been one of Chinaâs national strategies. However, Trumps gets into a trade fight with China which he wants to make sure he is not penalising Chinese companies but also working to actively support US companies facing increased competition from China. In my opinion, yes Chinaâs AI technology is the answer to the future. For example, China is using Artificial Technology in classroom which can detect studentâs attention.Â
Is the Social Credit System a way to instil good behaviour and provide safety to citizens? At what cost?
Based on Ma (2018), social credit system is a system where the government of China plans to rank all its citizens based on their social credit by 2020 and to monitor the behaviour of its enormous populations. The purpose of the system is to keep trust is good and breaking trust is bad. In addition, people can be rewarded and punished according to their scores. The scores can increase, and decrease based on how the person behave.
If the scores is less than 400, there will be punishment like banning citizens from flying and getting the train which the government restricting their travel, throttling the internet speeds, banning their children from entering the best schools, prevent the citizen form getting the best jobs, keeping out the citizen from the best hotels for the citizen to released stress, getting the dog away from the citizen, citizen named publicly named as bad.
If the scores is more than 400, the citizen of China will be rewarded like get a discount on energy bills, rent without deposit, get better interest rates at the bank, get a free holidays in the best hotel in china and there is a list for a good citizen which reportedly get citizens more matches on dating websites. (Ma 2018)
Is the Social Credit System a way to instil good behaviour and provide safety to citizen in China? In my opinion, it depends because it a way to instil good behaviour and provide safety to citizen in China but it can be not accurate because it measured by the system  and where citizen in China are more high-tech where the system can be hacked. Besides, the perks of being a good citizen are less than being bad citizen.
In conclusion, China has unique ways to control their people in order to develop good behaviour for their citizen.
References List
Ho, CK, Soo, Z, Deng, I 2018, Chinaâs internet ecosystem model increasingly being copied globally, South China Morning Post, viewed on 21 November 2019, https://www.scmp.com/tech/enterprises/article/2155155/chinas-internet-ecosystem-model-increasingly-being-copied-globally>.
Jing, M & Dai, S 2018, Hereâs what China is doing to boost it artificial intelligence capabilities, South China Morning Post, viewed on 21 November 2019, <https://www.scmp.com/tech/science-research/article/2145568/can-trumps-ai-summit-match-chinas-ambitious-strategic-plan>.
Ma, A 2018, China has started ranking citizens with a creepy âsocial creditâ system, - hereâs what you can do wrong and the embarrassing, demeaning ways they can punish you, Business Insider, viewed on 21 November 2019, <https://www.businessinsider.my/china-social-credit-system-punishments-and-rewards-explained-2018-4/?r=US&IR=T>.














