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When news publications mention "China is doing this..." you are really talking about the Chinese Communist Party. In this post we are looking at the Government of China's use of the Blockchain, and is it Weaponized at the hands of the CCP?
The CCP is not about to get behind the curb on Blockchain adoption, and get locked out technologically, especially with so much Data to mine from it's Citizen's. President Xi appears to fully support a national drive for China to lead the world in blockchain technology and development.
China is the country of "The Social Credit Score". When the CCP gets involved it's about control, and that doesn't give me a bright outlook over the CCP's interest in leading the Globe in blockchain technology and it's adoption.
A Forbes report from 2019 titled,"China’s Checkmate: The Technology Weapon You Didn’t See Coming", had a few key talking points on the Chinese Governments involvement in Blockchain technology. The Forbes post managed to go the whole story without mentioning the Chinese Communist Party. From Forbes:
"China has also been developing a new type of interconnectivity – the Blockchain Services Network (BSN)"
"The BSN is China’s national initiative to integrate adoption of blockchain technology across government, big business and emerging markets."
"The BSN will be the backbone infrastructure of interconnectivity through mainland China, city governments, private businesses, and individuals, in both China and abroad. This network will form a new Digital Silk Road to create a link to China and its trading partners globally."
"45% of all blockchain projects coming from China"
"This specifically includes a pathway for international decentralized services to be accessed in China and vice versa, thus catalyzing a truly globally-interconnected world,” says Michael Sung, Professor at Shangai’s Fudan University."
"BSN is not a blockchain itself. Rather, it opens a new world of possibilities to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) who want to develop blockchain capabilities. BSN democratizes access to blockchain capabilities, which today are only available to the largest and wealthiest companies such as WeChat, Alibaba BABA and Tencent."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tatianakoffman/2020/08/26/chinas-checkmate/amp/
Forbes leads you in with a sinister headline referencing"Technology Weapon", yet the article read like a marketing prospectus on the Chinese Governments major pursuit of Block Chain Technology. It did give the world the view that the Chinese Government is extremely serious in Blockchain adoption.
Is China Weaponizing Blockchain Technology For Gray Zone Warfare? By Global Security Review addresses the real issues on what a real "Weaponized Blockchain" really looks like. Reported by GSR:
"Adversarial governments and extremist groups can utilize it – with little fear of being caught “red-handed” – to further their interests at the expense of other countries unwilling or unable to stop it."
"Speculative blockchain uses could entail:
For espionage purposes, China could securely pay significant sums of money to trusted agents in Western societies that would be effectively untraceable. Such Chinese intelligence agents could – depending on the blockchain encrypted communications – pursue actions meant to sow disunity or political polarization. This could come in the form of providing significant monetary contributions to extremist political parties on the left and right side. "
"Blockchain security protocols, if properly implemented by Chinese intelligence and security agencies would essentially make their state secrets impenetrable."
"If the West were to attempt an information war within China, the authentication protocols provided by blockchain would make it nearly impossible to create and spread “fake news.” However, if the West did not use blockchain defensively, then China could create confusion in Western societies by distributing “fake news” through trusted Western media outlets. "
https://globalsecurityreview.com/china-weaponizing-blockchain-technology-gray-zone-warfare/
One dark use of the Blockchain becoming Weaponized is the use of stream lining logistics and resource management. In WW2 the Nazis used IBM computers to track and control Concentration Camp survivors. I can see history repeating itself in China today is with the Muslim Uighur population. The Uighur's are currently experiencing what some would describe as genocide, complete with Chinese Communist Party concentration camps, Will the Blockchain give the CCP an advantage in managing, tracking, and documenting the Muslim Uighur's the same way Nazi Germany used IBM computers to manage the Holocaust victims. Some key highlights from an article by the BBC," Who are the Uighurs and why is the US accusing China of genocide?"
"China is facing mounting criticism from around the world over its treatment of the mostly Muslim Uighur population in the north-western region of Xinjiang.
Rights groups believe China has detained more than a million Uighurs over the past few years in what the state defines as "re-education camps".
There is evidence of Uighurs being used as forced labour and of women being forcibly sterilised."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-22278037
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
This was just a small look into China's use of the Blockchain, and it's adoption. As you can see the Blockchain is so much more than crypto currency. It's not just the Chinese Military looking at Blockchain technology. The U.S. and NATO have been hard at it too, especially DARPA. Just goes to show you how cutting edge the #Hive platform has become. The Blockchain is so much more than crypto currency it's the future of expression and influence.