The Beijing Times reported that China will launch its Skynet program next month to track down corrupt officials and crack down on underground banks. Skynet is a coordinated effort between multiple government agencies including the Central Organization Department, the Supreme People's Procuratorat, the Ministry of Public Security and the People's Bank of China. The operation will focus on catching fugitive officials, and cracking down on underground banks and other anti-graft and corruption activities.
Skynet will integrate the police and state prosecutors, and use financial and diplomatic means to, “arrest groups of corrupt persons, clean up license plate violations, recover assets from a number of underground banks and bring a number of fugitive corrupt officials back to China.”
Source: inews.qq.com
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The system has nothing to do with any country sovereignty and/or spying on anybody as some people here assume. The system should work reciprocally - foreign countries ask China to investigate on the frauds which happened in their country and which have some presumed (or real) relation to China (for instance money ended up on Chinese bank accounts, or Chinese companies got involved etc.). Concurrently China will ask for information about own criminals in that country. And if these people do not have a status of fugitive so it's quite normal that such information should be provided. China apparently wants to close the back door to the corrupt officials before making further steps. There is certainly a corruption in this country but China is at least trying to solve it - of course it needs time. On top of that it's not an easy task as the corruption cases from Europe (Siemens and VW in Germany for instance, or the situation in Greece and Italy ...) indicate.
Mar 31, 2015 12:16 Report Abuse
Lol, this will be implemented by the people it is supposed to flush out... I don't see corrupt officials losing their job anything soon. They'll know exactly where Skynet is looking, and will know better how to hide the corruption.
Mar 30, 2015 12:15 Report Abuse
i bet you even the machines didn't saw that coming in the future, who knew back in 1990s that everything even SKYNET would be MADE IN CHINA! So inferior machines, not to worry guys, the humanity is safe, lets all go back to googling.
Mar 29, 2015 05:05 Report Abuse
You can be SURE the CCP will use it for something else. The truth is that something else is probably the real reason for skynet's existence.....
Mar 27, 2015 20:48 Report Abuse
"SKYNET"... So I guess the Chinese state is finally acknowledging that it is the great enemy of mankind; that it will attempt to eradicate human civilisation in a nuclear fire, and round up the survivors for orderly disposal in concentration camps. I mean, I kind of guessed that, but it's good of them to say so. --- Fortunately the CCP has overlooked one thing: Skynet is notable for becoming SELF-AWARE. Based on what I've seen of Chinese society, I can confidently say that this will never happen. Machines will become self-aware long before mainland China does.
Mar 27, 2015 20:43 Report Abuse
You know the British Military satellite system is called Skynet.
Mar 27, 2015 23:16 Report Abuse
Maybe they should ask themselves why their society breeds such corruption.
Mar 27, 2015 19:09 Report Abuse
Spot on. Their face thing blinds them from seeing a simple truth --- apples rot inside out. Too much face loss if they admit that.
Mar 27, 2015 20:29 Report Abuse
So what is the list of the countries allowing such an infringement in their sovereignty, and for what counterpart. As for the rest, no shit given. Crackdown as hard as you want, it'll just keep coming back forever until the real problems are addressed. And of course since the problem is you and everything you stand for, I guess this is checkmate.
Mar 27, 2015 16:46 Report Abuse
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