China's social credit system is known for punishing individuals but it is also being used to control the behavior of foreign companies. According to a new report, the system -- which threatens ...

It’s the most prominent in a rising network of social-credit-score systems in China that are dramatically expanding the concept of creditworthiness—and raising fears internationally about ...

State-linked company China Youth Credit Management (CY Credit) is currently developing a social credit system designed to rewards its nation’s teenagers for good social behaviour, according to ...

In 2014 China laid out an ambitious blueprint for a nationwide social-credit system: across a vast country of 1.4 billion it aims, by the end of next year, to have established the parameters to ...

In an article by South China Morning Post, shopkeeper Liu Huayang comments that: “My face is the best credit. The government’s rating is merely a gesture on paper.” To conclude, the social ...