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China’s Social Credit System: Contexts, Impacts and Challenges
Dr Gulizar Haciyakupoglu Senior Associate Fellow
Dr Gulizar Haciyakupoglu
Dr Wu Shang-Su Research Fellow
Dr Wu Shang-Su
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The gradually forming social credit system (SCS) is make up of comprehensive surveillance and popular participation, which would not only promote certain socialisation set by the Chinese government, but also pose some challenges to the current political paradigm of liberal democracy. Despite the deep governmental intervention and lack of privacy, Chinese people’s positive responses to the SCS may reflect their various social conditions, such as legacies of Confucianism and Communist movements. This paper will elaborate the related cultural and historical elements that could be compatible with the SCS. However, its current political system is not perfectly suitable for the SCS, and thus some challenges which would appear when Beijing eventually proceeds it national wide will be reviewed. Therefore, the impacts of the SCS in both domestic and international arenas will be presented in a relatively balanced way.
| Theme: | Country and Region Studies |
| Region: | East Asia and Asia Pacific |
| Entity: | IDSS / CENS |
