{"id":64960,"date":"2021-06-08T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T04:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=64960"},"modified":"2021-11-04T14:03:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T03:03:53","slug":"china-tech-giants-map-update-3-launch-major-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/china-tech-giants-map-update-3-launch-major-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping China\u2019s Tech Giants: Covid-19, supply chains and strategic competition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mapping China\u2019s Technology Giants<\/a> is a multi-year project by ASPI\u2019s International Cyber Policy Centre<\/a> that tracks the overseas expansion of key Chinese technology companies. This data-driven project, and the accompanying database and research products, fill a research and policy gap by building understanding about the global trajectory and impact of China\u2019s largest companies working across the internet, telecommunications, artificial intelligence, surveillance, e-commerce, finance, biotechnology, big data, cloud computing, smart city and social media sectors.<\/p>\n

Today, we\u2019ve relaunched our project with major data updates, new analytical products and two new reports. Here\u2019s a summary of what you can now find on our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Data updates<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our China Tech Map now includes more than 3,800 global entries. These are each populated with up to 15 categories of data, totaling 38,000+ data points. With this relaunch, we\u2019ve added four new companies to our database: Ant Group<\/a> (digital payment and financial technology) Inspur<\/a> (cloud computing and big data), Ping An Technology<\/a> (AI, blockchain and cloud computing) and Nuctech<\/a> (security technology).<\/p>\n

Our data\u2014which you can download here<\/a>\u2014includes many new entry types. For example, because of the pandemic, we\u2019ve added a category focused on the companies\u2019 monetary and in-kind donations to other organisations or countries. Alibaba, ByteDance and Tencent<\/a> make up 80+ of the 130 Covid-19 donation entries we\u2019ve mapped.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve also looked into new or expanded areas of business, particularly those related to Covid-19. BGI, for example, signed a number of agreements to establish laboratories to improve Covid-19 testing capacity, such as in Angola<\/a>, Australia<\/a> and the United Arab Emirates<\/a>. Elsewhere, it donated testing equipment, such as in Israel<\/a>, Greece<\/a> and Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Smart city projects (often referred to as \u2018safe cities\u2019 by those selling the technology) featured heavily in our 2019 version of the China Tech Map project. We found that these continued to evolve globally, but also faced greater scrutiny in some countries. In Pakistan, Huawei projects in Islamabad<\/a>, Lahore<\/a> and Punjab<\/a> all faced various political, technical and financial setbacks. Meanwhile, in 2020, Huawei<\/a> signed an agreement to supply smart cities solutions to Saudi Arabia, while projects in Duisburg, Germany<\/a> and Valenciennes, France<\/a> appear to be ongoing.<\/p>\n

New analysis products <\/strong><\/p>\n

When the China Tech Map project started, we assessed that the global expansion of China\u2019s technology giants needed to be understood within the unique party-state environment that shapes, limits and drives their global behaviour. This, we argued, sets them apart from other large technology companies expanding around the world. This project has sought to:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n