Quantas concern on china’s Social Credit System

Quantas
Qantas Airways Limited (/ˈkwɒntəs/) is the flag carrier of Australia and its largest airline by fleet
size, international flights and international destinations.[10] It is the third oldest airline in the world,
after KLM and Avianca, having been founded in November 1920;[11][12] it began international
passenger flights in May 1935. The Qantas name comes from "QANTAS", an acronym for its
original name, "Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services", and it is nicknamed "The
Flying Kangaroo". Qantas is a founding member of the Oneworld airline alliance.[1

On 25 April 2018, the Chinese Civil Aviation Administration accused

United Airlines, Qantas and dozens of other international airlines of
‘serious dishonesty’ for allegedly violating Chinese laws in how they
listed Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau on their websites.  To clarify: 9

those websites, which belong to international companies, are for

global clients. The Chinese authorities said failure to classify the
places as Chinese property would count against the airlines’ credit
records and would lead to penalties under other laws, such as the
Cybersecurity Law.

Concerns :
1. Shaping and influencing decision-making is a pre-emptive tactic
for ensuring state security and party control. This is implemented
by the social credit system. The CCP deals with threats by
‘combining treatment with prevention, but primarily focusing on
prevention.’  That doesn’t make the outcome less coercive.
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Qantas Airways Limited (/ˈkwɒntəs/) is the flag carrier of Australia and its largest airline by fleet size,
international flights and international destinationsWe are concerned that China’s social credit
system as an act of Social management as a concept requires the provision of services and the use of
normal economic and social management to exert control over the business. Understanding this
dual-use nature of the SCS is the key: the system’s ability to solve and manage problems does not
diminish its political or coercive capacity.

Good Morning Everybody. This is spokesperson of Quantas Airaways, the flag carrier of Australia and
its largest airline by fleet size, international flights and international destinations. I would like to
thank PRC for involving us as foreign business in discussion. On 25 April 2018,Australian airline
Qantas to change the language it uses on its website and in advertising material to reflect that
Taiwan is a part of China (indicating the People’s Republic of China).

Airlines don’t decide what countries are called, governments do… and at the end of the day, the
Australians, like a lot of countries, have a One China policy. So we’re not doing anything different
than the Australian government. Qantas has daily flights to and from both Shanghai and Beijing
out of Sydney, with a further 28 flights a week to Hong Kong out of a number of Australian cities.
The company would undoubtedly hope to expand on these flights in the coming years.

There are 2 strategic concerns :

1. The key to business thriving is to keep any externality out of system. Any form of externality
other than the generalized law of land will undermine the foreign business. While we do
appreciate the objective of China’s social credit system in managing and rating social
behavior. Such form of coercive action if extended to organization which governs on
principle of business sanctity & principles will jeopardize the business and its functioning
which operates on dynamic pricing and supply and demand.

2. Airline Dynamic revenue management system is under constant threat due to breach of
hacking.
3. Airline business thrives because of demand and providing the supply. As per records, the
social credit system. In 2017, about 6.3 million Chinese citizens re debarred from entering
the iways infrastructure, which undermines the business ecosystem.

Social Security :

1. Social management as a concept requires the provision of

services and the use of normal economic and social
management to exert political control. Yet therein lies the
contradiction: the Chinese state does not prioritise solving
problems above political security. In fact, problem solving is
simultaneously directed at political security. The system will also
increasingly rely on technology embedded in everyday life to
manage social and economic development problems while
simultaneously using the same resources to expand control.
Understanding this dual-use nature of the SCS is the key: the
system’s ability to solve and manage problems does not
diminish its political or coercive capacity.
2. mportantly, ‘overseas Chinese and ethnic Chinese’ can cover
anyone who the CCP claims is ‘Chinese’, whether or not they
have PRC citizenship. In addition to expatriates, it can include
someone who was never a PRC citizen, such as citizens of
 Taiwan.  A PRC-born person with citizenship in another country
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is also considered subject to the rule

3.  credit records should create trust and encourage moral
behaviour, but they are not. ‘Trust’ and ‘morality’ have dual
meanings in the context of social credit. One side is focused on
the reliability of an individual or entity, and the other on making
the CCP’s position in power reliably secure. Trust and& morality
serve their purpose only if they’re created on the party’s terms
and if they produce reliability in the CCP’s capacity to govern.
So the language itself promotes the party’s authority and control.

Solutions:

Recommendation 1: Control the export of Western technologies and

research already used in—and potentially useful to—the Chinese
state’s SCS.

Recommendation 2: Review emerging and strategic technologies,

paying particular attention to university and research institute
partnerships.

Recommendation 3: Strengthen democratic resilience to counter

foreign interference.

Recommendation 4: Fund research to identify dual-purpose

technologies and data collection systems.

Recommendation 5: Governments and entities must strengthen data

protection.

Recommendation 6: New legislation should reflect that this is also a

human rights issue.

Recommendation 7: Support companies threatened by China’s social

credit system

Recommendation 8: Overseas Chinese communities must be

protected from social credit’s overseas expansion.
1. Technolhy as digital economy
2. Research
3. Rajanya Jha lecture – Digital Welfare
4.