translated from Spanish: George Soros attacking China in Davos: “Xi Jinping is a danger to freedom”

Soros warned that Beijing might use its development of artificial intelligence and machine learning to strengthen the totalitarian control in the country.
This scenario, he said, presents “unprecedented danger”, although he expressed confidence that Chinese citizens can change things.
“China is not the only authoritarian regime in the world, but it is the richest and the strongest and the most advanced technologically,” he said, also pointing his concern over the Russia of Vladimir Putin.
‘Security risk’ “This makes Xi Jinping at the most dangerous opponent of open societies”, said.
Soros, a major donor of the Democrat Party of the United States, also criticised the position of the Government of Trump toward China.
“Rather than fight a trade war with practically all over the world, United States should focus on China”, said.
In this sense, he urged Washington to take decisive action against Chinese technology companies such as Huawei and ZTE, because, he said, represent a “risk of unacceptable security for the rest of the world”.
Already without specific references, Soros warned that repressive regimes could use the technology to control its citizens, something he called “mortal threat to open societies”.
The Jewish businessman of Hungarian origin, of 88 years, survived the nazi occupation, falsifying identity documents and has become famous for his role in the devaluation of the British pound, known as Black Wednesday.
But their philanthropic and political activities are that have made him a figure disputed both in United States and in Europe and other regions of the world.
Denunciation of bribes Soros has spent billions of its own money to finance projects of human rights and democratic liberal Court worldwide companies.
It has also become a target of frequent criticism from right-wing groups by giving its support to liberal causes. Much of these views have been reproved for having anti-Semitic undertones.
At the end of 2018, found a suspect package in your mailbox from her home in New York.
Already last year, Soros used his speech to attack Giants technology like Facebook because it considers that they have a detrimental effect on democratic systems.
But in this edition of the World Economic Forum, the Tycoon directed his anger towards Beijing, and in particular to its controversial plan above the “New Silk Road” with which China finances links by road, rail and sea in much of the world to promote well eating CIO between countries.
In his opinion, this plan “was designed to promote the interests of China, not the interests of recipient countries”, said.
Soros said that China has granted loans, not grants, to countries that are part of the project stating also that “often the foreign officials have received bribes to accept them (the loans)”.

Original source in Spanish

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