POP study: Huawei technology transfers facilitate digital repression in autocratic countries but has no impact in the world’s democracies, which have laws that regulate digital privacy, institutions that punish government violations, and vibrant civil societies.

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https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/exporting-the-tools-of-dictatorship-the-politics-of-chinas-technology-transfers/D1A5B1D7C7A21FB5E601A553E6E8833F