6/Trump has shown willingness to give ground on this front. Earlier this year, he cut a deal with Nvidia to lift export controls on selling certain chips to China in exchange for a 15% cut of the profits.
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5/Now, whether or not to grant China access to cutting-edge chips is one of the big issues facing Trump during his meet with Xi.
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4/Sales took a hit with tensions over trade and Xinjiang started in 2018, and the U.S. government sanctioned a slew of Chinese surveillance firms and other entities.

But some continue to this day:
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3/In past administrations, the U.S. government even actively encouraged and assisted big tech to sell surveillance gear to Chinese police, holding adversary seminars and assisting them in attending trade shows hosted by the Chinese Ministry of Public Security.

2/We found tech giants spent hundreds of millions of dollars to lobby Washington on trade with China, opposing measures to curb exports of technology used for surveillance and policing in China despite repeated warnings about the potential for rights abuses

34/Today, it has become one of the defining characteristics of a new techno-authoritarianism Beijing has pioneered, one that fuses the old-school secret police and paranoia of Leninist-Maoist Communism with cutting edge tech brought by American capitalism.

33/Going back to that trip to Kazakhstan in March 2018, I felt as though I had finally solved the mystery of what happened.
“Predictive policing” – a concept born in the West & turbocharged by 9/11 – was brought to China by American firms.
In China, it took on a life of its own.

32/Xinjiang told us in a 5-page fax such tech is used to “combat terrorist & criminal activity,” that it respects citizens’ privacy and rights & that it does not target ethnicities.
They called the U.S. a “true surveillance state,” citing cameras strung up around New York.

31/By the time authorities launched their mass detention campaign, they had compiled dossiers on huge swaths of Xinjiang’s population. Terror struck the Uyghur community, as vast numbers disappeared into camps with little explanation other than being flagged as “suspicious”.

30/Xinjiang’s cities were strung with thousands of police checkpoints and millions of cameras.
Massive new data centers were built and strung together, allowing police to fuse data and sift through vast amounts of information to find what they considered potential “terrorists”.

29/ That’s when Xinjiang began constructing its digital police state.
After over a decade of buying American predictive policing technology, they knew how to do it.
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28/Meanwhile, knifings and bombings in Xinjiang grew more frequent, peaking in an Urumqi train station bombing that took place hours after Xi Jinping visited.
He demanded a crackdown.
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27/When we asked IBM for comment, they said they cut relations with Landasoft in 2014 and barred sales to Xinjiang police in 2015.
Asked about their past sales to Chinese police and the Golden Shield, IBM sent us a letter calling it “old, stale interactions”.

26/IBM acquired i2 and sold it to Chinese police via Landasoft and other agents. Over the years, Landasoft copied i2 and created their own, Chinese version of i2. They didn’t go far for a name, calling it “iTap”.
Zhou and Landasoft did not respond to requests for comment.

25/In a 2009 pamphlet, IBM cited the Urumqi riots, saying their tech could help “maintain social stability”:
“Via real-time crime monitoring, early warning and detection systems, valuable information can be gleaned... to provide intelligent analysis for public security organs"

24/The solution?
The i2 playbook _ fusing data and drawing connections between individuals deemed suspicious.

23/ Authorities didn’t know who to target. Their data was fractured: each department ran their own database with no connection between them. It allowed dissidents to organize opposition to the state.
It was the same issue that plagued American officials in the run up to 9/11.