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Welcome to Mapping China’s Tech Giants
Chinese technology companies are increasingly important and dynamic international actors. They are making critical contributions in a range of areas, from cutting edge research to enabling
connectivity for developing countries. Yet, their rapid expansion and growing influence also bring a range of strategic and policy challenges. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute's International Cyber
Policy Centre has created a public database to map the global expansion of 12 key Chinese tech companies working across the telecommunications, internet & biotech sectors. It’s a tool for
journalists, researchers, NGOs, policymakers and the interested public to better understand the enormous scale, complexity and increasing reach of some of China’s tech giants. On this website you’ll
find:
12 companies
1700+ points of overseas presence
17k+ total data points
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Smart Cities An important and understudied part of the global expansion of Chinese tech companies involves the
proliferation of smart cities and ‘public security solutions’ around the world. Euphemistically called ‘safe cities’, these projects involve sophisticated surveillance technologies including surveillance
cameras, facial & license plate recognition technologies, command & control centres, data labs and new intelligence fusion capabilities. This research maps:
75 Smart City-Public Security
projects
46 Countries
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University & research partnerships
Chinese companies are expanding their overseas R&D, including through partnerships with foreign universities, governments, companies and think-tanks. All companies we’ve included in this database
engage in an assortment of different research partnerships and most have R&D labs overseas. Huawei has been particularly active in developing ties with universities, including through its ‘Seeds
for the Future’ program, which provides training and funds students to visit their headquarters in Shenzhen. This research maps:
404 Research partnerships
119 R&D labs
195+ Huawei Seeds for the Future
partnerships
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Explore mapExplore countries
Please explore and use this public database. While it contains more than 17,000 data points, it is still not exhaustive and we welcome and encourage you to help us make it more complete. As a function of their increasingly scale and scope, China’s tech giants can exert increasing levels of influence over
industries and governments around the world. The close relationship between these companies and the Chinese Communist Party means that the expansion of China’s tech giants is about more than commerce. In our report we dig into some of the data and take a look at the geostrategic, political
and human rights implications of this expansion.