BEIJING - The rollout of China’s controversial corporate “social credit system” is well under way and accelerating, a European business lobby in the country said on Wednesday, warning that foreign governments need to wake up to the plan’s potential risks.
In a roadmap plan released in 2014, China said it would by 2020 create the system to reward or punish individuals and corporations using technology to record various measures of financial credit, personal behavior and corporate misdeeds. “It is a very, very potent instrument of regulating, controlling and steering companies in a targeted way,” Bjoern Conrad, chief executive officer of Sinolytics, a consulting firm that helped draft the report, told reporters.
The chamber said the corporate social credit system is part of a “major shift” in China’s market access limits for foreign companies as the government enhances its ability to control firms’ behavior even as it pledges to scale back on traditional constraints, such as joint venture requirements and restricted sectors for investment.
“Being a legal representative of a company in China means that your individual rating of the social credit system is directly related to the company and vice versa,” Conrad said.
If the system gets hacked it could destroy people and companies.
When I am reading these kind of articles, I keep surprised that the EU is siding with the US regarding to China. China is creating a superstate which is so much at odds with the European system. And the tradewar is a possibility to influence this process. But the EU is silent..
Wake-up...have they gotten a piece of my hair and cloned me yet?!? 🤭