core pillar of the Chinese Communist Party’s plan is harnessing emerging technologies to “leapfrog” the United States and become the world’s preeminent power. It is undertaking an unprecedented effort, backed by hundreds of billions of dollars of state investment, to become the world leader in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, robotics, and other advanced technologies. The Chinese Communist Party is already using these technologies to build the most intrusive system of mass surveillance, social control, and totalizing dictatorship the world has ever seen. And its leaders clearly view
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