As China tightens its oppression of Uyghur Muslim minorities in the western region of Xinjiang in recent years, a group of technology firms received international attention for helping the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime build a massive surveillance network with state-of-the-art security technology.
A fact that’s often overlooked is that most of these autocracy-enabling firms have been incubated with capital from Western countries. One example is the leading artificial intelligence (AI) firm SenseTime.
