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China Is Extending Its Totalitarian Controls to the Rest of the World
Gatestone Institute ^ | 27 Apr, 2021 | Gordon G. Chang

Posted on 04/27/2021 10:26:35 AM PDT by MtnClimber

In the Haidilao Hot Pot restaurant in... Vancouver, more than 60 surveillance cameras watch 30 tables and send feeds to China. The cameras, manager Ryan Pan explains, are there to "people track" and are "part of the social credit system in China."

In 2014, China's State Council issued guidelines for the establishment of a national "social credit system" by 2020, with the feeds from about 626 million surveillance cameras and smartphone scanners and with data from a multitude of sources ... For example, criticizing Chinese ruler Xi Jinping would result in the lowering of an individual's score. There are consequences for low-scored individuals.

Why did Beijing select Ryan Pan's restaurant for such intensive collection of information? For starters, it is near to the home rented by Huawei Technologies for staff attending to Meng Wanzhou, the firm's chief financial officer. Meng is in the middle of a multi-year struggle to avoid extradition to the U.S. for alleged bank fraud relating to sanctions evasion, and she is allowed to stay in one of her homes. Beijing, therefore, wants to know what people around her are saying and doing.

In addition to posing a crucial national security risk, the secretive transmission of video to China is a violation of British Columbia law, specifically, the province's Personal Information Protection Act.

Beijing will, at some point, be able to assign a social credit score to just about everyone on the planet.... it is just a matter of time before they succeed.

(Excerpt) Read more at gatestoneinstitute.org ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: china; communism; gordonchang; socialcreditscore; surveillance; totalitarianism
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To: Freee-dame

Yep.


21 posted on 04/27/2021 11:52:39 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (RIP my "teddy bear". )
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To: Disambiguator

“It seems China is getting ready for something that most people in the USA and Canada don’t know about yet.”

“Like an invasion? Given who is in charge of the Federal Government right now, there’s no time like the present!”

Looking so far like this will indeed be the Century of China, as has been predicted.

China has been weaponizing space. Chinese warships have increased in numbers and power. China now controls many South American ports. Chinese troops will mass up in Canada and South America, then Mexico.

America will become China’s new farmland, mineral resource and their elites’ playground.
Americans will become constantly monitored, socially scored, working class biotches.

Patriots waited too long, the commie cancer has metastasized. Last minute treatment, now, will be harshly invasive and damaging.

Here’s a social scoring scenario:

https://youtu.be/YrpK90bHO2U


22 posted on 04/27/2021 12:04:42 PM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: MtnClimber

China released a weapon that affected the entire world. Who knows that it already has developed a follow-up weapon that will worsen the effect of the first weapon. And it won’t even have to fire a shot.
Genius, huh?
And it can send secret messages to the Bidens through the use of innocent-looking fortune cookies. And to think that we had the best POTUS ever who could have prevented all this and replaced him with an imbecile.

Sheesh


23 posted on 04/27/2021 12:28:16 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: MtnClimber

Chinese ruler Xi Jinping isn’t stupid, but his wooden puppet Joe Xiden is.


24 posted on 04/27/2021 12:43:18 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: 353FMG
And to think that we had the best POTUS ever who could have prevented all this and replaced him with an imbecile.

"We" didn't "replace" DJT. "They" stole it from him.

25 posted on 04/27/2021 12:43:56 PM PDT by bassmaner (He y commies: I'm a white male, and guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere!)
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To: MtnClimber
I don't know about the Rest of the World, but, so far, they've been successful beyond their wildest dreams in America!

Kruschev knew what he was talking about when he said: "We will sell you the rope we'll hang you with."

26 posted on 04/27/2021 1:14:02 PM PDT by Savage Beast (“Morality, like a chameleon, tends to take on the color of the circumambient society.” P. Yogananda)
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To: 353FMG

“China released a weapon that affected the entire world. Who knows that it already has developed a follow-up weapon that will worsen the effect of the first weapon.”

And we’ll have to submit to a facial scan, a tag and social scoring to get the life-saving ‘vaccine’.


27 posted on 04/27/2021 1:16:45 PM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: bassmaner

But the country did not put up much of a fight, did it?


28 posted on 04/27/2021 1:37:48 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: SunkenCiv
We've nearly arrived. The medical examiner who testified in the Chauvin trial is under investigation, people get fired for their opinions, the a-holes at FB and other anti-social media sites plaster denials and provisos over opinions and facts they don't like, and laws that actually exist and make sense are either under attack or just not enforced.

How many of us can post under our real names on Facebook and Twitter that we voted for Trump? Our careers would take a hit. We'll lose our friends. Relatives may lose touch with us.

29 posted on 04/27/2021 1:45:52 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MtnClimber

Thanks.


30 posted on 04/27/2021 2:10:40 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: MtnClimber
Now the American freedom hating traitors are in power. They cheer for totalitarian CCP China's victory every day.


31 posted on 04/27/2021 2:19:31 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: MtnClimber

Why does Canada allow this? Or are they owned by the Chinese? Rhetorical questions both


32 posted on 04/27/2021 2:23:04 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Steely Tom

Does China have a “ten most wanted” poster like we do?


No, because the most wanted are best used as live organ donors ... better to just sneak up and bag them before they know what is what.


33 posted on 04/27/2021 2:24:52 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Vigilanteman
Chinese ruler Xi Jinping isn’t stupid, but his wooden puppet running dog Joe Xiden is.
34 posted on 04/27/2021 2:27:19 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: SunkenCiv
In the Haidilao Hot Pot restaurant in... Vancouver, more than 60 surveillance cameras watch 30 tables and send feeds to China. The cameras, manager Ryan Pan explains, are there to "people track" and are "part of the social credit system in China."

How soon 'til Biden's thugs want to copy this one...

35 posted on 04/27/2021 9:01:28 PM PDT by GOPJ (We need a better class of 'elites' - the ones we have now are more like monied white trash...)
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To: GOPJ

I’m pretty sure we’re already there.


36 posted on 04/28/2021 6:34:47 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
My view is, they aren't really my friends, because they'd blame me if I got fired for my views. For at least a few years now, I've cut their FB feeds (friends as well as relatives) so I didn't have to see their regurgitations of DNC talking points, but not booting them off my list, and have just let my contact with them dwindle, as they are mostly at some distance away.

37 posted on 04/28/2021 6:44:07 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: PIF

LOL! Now that would make for a great discussion: Is Joe Xiden a wooden puppet or a running dog? There is perhaps a strong case to be made that he is a switch hitter here.


38 posted on 04/28/2021 7:26:09 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Vigilanteman

“Running dog” is how the Chinese would traditionally refer to a wooden sock puppet like Traitor Joe.


39 posted on 04/28/2021 8:15:29 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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