{"id":149148,"date":"2026-04-04T14:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149148"},"modified":"2026-04-04T14:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:30:07","slug":"chinese-surveillance-tech-rolled-out-in-africa-with-zte-hikvision-and-huawei-at-the-helm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149148","title":{"rendered":"Chinese surveillance tech rolled out in Africa with ZTE, Hikvision and Huawei at the helm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAcross major African cities such as Nairobi, Lusaka, and Abuja, governments are using surveillance technologies and credit lines from China to monitor public spaces and curb crime, a new survey shows.<br \/>\nThe UK-based Institute of Development Studies (IDS) said Chinese banks were increasingly funding African governments to build and maintain digital infrastructure \u2013 including surveillance cameras and command and control centres \u2013 under the \u201csafe city\u201d project, also known as \u201csmart city\u201d, which is&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3348916\/chinese-surveillance-tech-rolled-out-africa-zte-hikvision-and-huawei-helm?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAcross major African cities such as Nairobi, Lusaka, and Abuja, governments are using surveillance technologies and credit lines from China to monitor public spaces&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149148"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}