Leaked files show a Chinese company is exporting the Great Firewall’s censorship technology - The Globe and Mail 9/18/25, 10:43 AM The government of Kazakhstan was one of the first to make use of Geedge’s flagship technology, the Tiangou Secure Gateway. The governments of Ethiopia and Myanmar have since adopted the same tool. SAI AUNG MAIN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES In all three countries, Geedge was providing technology previously unavailable to its clients, expanding their internet censorship capabilities. By contrast, in Pakistan, the Chinese company appears to have stepped into a vacuum created by the exit of one of its Western competitors: Waterloo, Ont.-based Sandvine. In February, 2024, Sandvine was placed on a U.S. sanctions list for “facilitating human rights abuses” by providing “mass webmonitoring and censorship” to authoritarian regimes around the world. The company – now rebranded as AppLogic Networks – was removed from the list in October after it exited several dozen countries and promised to “focus on servicing democracies.” Sandvine quit Pakistan in 2023 amid growing scrutiny of its work there, and was quickly replaced by Geedge, which the documents show apparently utilizing existing Sandvine installations as well as providing new technology to power Islamabad’s Web Monitoring System, as the country’s national firewall is called. In a statement, AppLogic said it was not aware of Geedge and any hardware repurposed by the company was off-the-shelf equipment “that does not contain any special capability that is unique to Sandvine’s solution.” As well as the countries named above, the Geedge leaks show the company works with government agencies in at least three regions of China – Xinjiang, Jiangsu and Fujian – as well as with an as-yet-unidentified national client labelled in the data as A24. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-leaked-files-show-a…de&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer Page 4 of 9