2020 alone, Chinese people used mobile payment systems to conduct more than 123 billion transactions worth $67.5 trillion, nearly eleven times the total global credit and debit payment volumes recorded by MasterCard that year.
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And as with the Palestinians, Uyghurs’ pain at the loss of control over their homeland was exacerbated by cultural and ideological frictions with the potential to spark explosions of righteous anger.
To illustrate this last point, Ma brought up the example of a would-be terrorist preparing a bomb attack. “It is normal for a person to buy a pressure cooker, it’s normal for a person to buy a clock, it’s normal even for a person to buy gunpowder and ball bearings, but if one buys all those things together, then it is not normal,” he said. Algorithms could be built to spot those suspicious purchasing patterns and flag them to authorities. “The political and legal system of the future is inseparable from the internet, inseparable from big data,” he said. “Bad guys won’t even be able to walk into the square.” Whether by “the square” Ma meant to evoke Tiananmen Square was uncertain, but the substance of his message was clear: Alibaba’s data could help prevent existential threats to the Party’s power.