The “Social Credit System” is designed to monitor and rate citizens and companies in China and to guide their behavior. “It is a wide-reaching project that touches on almost all aspects of everyday life,” the authors Mareike Ohlberg, Bertram Lang, and Shazeda Ahmed write in the new MERICS China...
Shazeda Ahmed is a Ph.D. student in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on how Chinese citizens interact with technology that teaches them about...
Bertram Lang is a research associate at Goethe University Frankfurt. His academic interest includes China’s non-profit sector, EU-China relations, and the politics of anti-corruption. Lang has also...