Dangerous, Yet Not So Unique. Characteristics of the Chinese Social Credit System

• Authors: Jan Pabisiak

Abstracts

EN

Since 2015, the Social Credit System - an initiative of the government of the People’s Republic of China which aims to strengthen trustworthiness of the business entities and citizens, promote obedience to law and customs, and develop the Communist Party of China’s control over social trends and potential threats to the political stability - has been attracting worldwide attention. International media portrays the System as a mechanism which leads China to totalitarianism and destroys hope for development of the Chinese democratic movement. Therefore, interests of both sides, the West and China, are seen as contradictory. Harmful beliefs like the one that Chinese still export products of poor quality and on the Chinese side that the Western ideals lead to demoralization are common thanks to some sort of Occidental and Oriental propaganda. That is why it is necessary to compile and analyze the known facts regarding the Social Credit System, which in contrast to the media narration turns out to be a tool with interesting capabilities, not necessarily contradictory to the other major civilizations’ values.

Keywords

EN

China; Social Credit System; surveillance; trustworthiness; reputation; blacklist; scoring

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Polish Political Science Yearbook
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 3 (49)
• Pages: 30-53

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Jan Pabisiak

• University of Wrocław

• https://orcid.org/0000000161024389

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/ppsy2020303

Biblioteka Nauki

2015643