McGregor observes that China's National Data Bureau was created to coordinate data policy, but there is evidence of implementation gaps—provincial systems don't communicate seamlessly and major data breaches (like the Shanghai police records leak) indicate China's data systems are imperfect.
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Grady McGregorEvidence Quote
“I was recently reporting on this National Data Bureau um that China kind of created to sort of try to harness data for their own uses and you lay out very sort of methodically this case that you know this data strategy from the top levels of the government but I'm curious to what degree you know the CCP is very aspirational how is that being executed”
Created: 8/10/2026, 11:18:09 PM
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