Take Cisco. The company "earns $500 million a year in revenues [in China] and holds 60 percent of the Chinese market for routers, switches, and other sophisticated networking gear."
That includes "the watchdog router that prevents Internet users in China from gaining access to banned websites."
And it includes Policenet, which "connects officials of the Public Security Bureau — a national agency with local branches that handle security, immigration, ’social order,’ and law enforcement — to each other and to electronic records that store a wealth of information on every citizen in China."
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