{"id":86923,"date":"2019-01-25T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T09:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=86923 "},"modified":"2019-01-25T09:48:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T09:48:00","slug":"86923-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=86923","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Xi Jinping \\’most dangerous\\’ to free societies, says George Soros"},"content":{"rendered":"
Mr Soros warned that artificial intelligence and machine learning could be used to entrench totalitarian control in the country.<\/div>
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He said this scenario presented an “unprecedented danger”.<\/div>
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But he said the Chinese people were his “main source of hope”.<\/div>
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“China is not the only authoritarian regime in the world but it is the wealthiest, strongest and technologically most advanced,” he said, noting concerns too about Vladimir Putin’s Russia.<\/div>
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‘Security risk’<\/div>
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“This makes Xi Jinping the most dangerous opponent of open societies,” he said.<\/div>
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Mr Soros, a prominent donor to the Democratic Party in the US, also criticised the Trump administration’s stance towards China.<\/div>
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“Instead of waging a trade war with practically the whole world, the US should focus on China,” he said.<\/div>
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He urged Washington to crack down on Chinese technology companies such as Huawei and ZTE, which he said present an “unacceptable security risk for the rest of the world”.<\/div>
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More broadly, Mr Soros cautioned that repressive regimes could utilise technology to control their citizens, in what he called “a mortal threat to open societies”.<\/div>
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