How do cybersecurity leaders view the current state of cyber tech in China? The eighth episode of The Cybersecurity and Geopolitical Podcast — China’s Role in Cybersecurity: Opportunity, Manufacturer or Threat? — discusses the intentions of the nation's foreign policy regarding cyber manufacturing.

As China forges its role as one of the great world powers, it relies upon a blast furnace of espionage operations to acquire foreign technologies and intellectual property, better position itself against competing international powers and control its own image both at home and abroad.

Surveillance cameras installed in the front of the classroom would record students’ attentiveness and facial expressions. Behaviors are analyzed in six categories: reading, writing, listening, standing, hand-raising and napping.

The new cybersecurity law enables the Chinese government to take measures to “monitor, defend and handle cybersecurity risks and threats originating from within the country or overseas sources, protecting key information infrastructure from attack, intrusion, disturbance and damage.”

At the InterContinental Hotel in Hangzhou, China, the accommodations are set to please even the highest standards.