The Chinese surveillance state in Latin America? Evidence from Argentina and Ecuador
研究了阿根廷和厄瓜多尔与中国企业合作建设的两个监控项目，基于实证证据提出应结合当地与中国行为体的分散作用以及经济、社会、政治因素来审视这类项目。
Western authors fear that Chinese exports of surveillance technologies to Global South countries may lead to reproduction of the problematic surveillance practices that the Chinese state practices within its borders. However, much of this literature is not based on empirically-grounded research. To examine such concerns, we investigated two surveillance projects built in Argentina and Ecuador in cooperation with Chinese enterprises—JSeI in Argentina and ECU 911 in Ecuador. Based on empirical evidence, we argue for a more situated and differentiated approach for examining such projects that considers the distributed agency among local and Chinese actors, as well as the economic, social, and political factors that led to their deployment.