Romney Cashes in on Chinese Gov Suppression

By NCD on Fri, 03/16/2012 - 10:10am |

BEIJING — As the Chinese government forges ahead on a multibillion-dollar effort to blanket the country with surveillance cameras, one American company stands to profit: Bain Capital, the private equity firm founded by Mitt Romney. In December, a Bain-run fund in which a Romney family blind trust has holdings purchased the video surveillance division of a Chinese company that claims to be the largest supplier to the government’s Safe Cities program, a highly advanced monitoring system....a Tibetan Buddhist monk in Gansu Province....said the cameras helped the authorities identify and detain nearly 200 monks who participated in a protest at his monastery in 2008....

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/world/asia/bain-capital-tied-to-surveillance-push-in-china.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all