Even more worrisome are the unsettling ends to which the Chinese Communist Party is putting advanced technologies. What started with the “great firewall,” an elaborate project to restrict the free flow of information into China, has developed into an all-encompassing and dystopian form of techno-authoritarianism by the Chinese state. A nationwide system of online monitoring and surveillance cameras, enhanced with artificial intelligence and facial recognition, oversees everything that Chinese citizens say, do, write, and buy, both online and in the real world. All of this personal information
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