core precept of Confucianism is “know thy place,” the CCP intends to also know everyone’s place at all times. A vast network of CCTV cameras with AI-enabled facial, iris, voice, and gait recognition capabilities; geospatial monitoring of individual movements through cell phone positioning data; a nearly universal cashless payment system for monitoring all financial transaction (including, as is planned for the future, through a fully government-controlled digital currency); and, most recently, a carefully crafted “social credit system” that permanently monitors and rewards or punishes people’s
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