Posted on 05/05/2021 8:14:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
China is covertly conducting surveillance and even tracking people’s movements in North America using what’s called “a social credit system,” trying to advance its totalitarian authority all over the world even in free nations.
The Gatestone Institute, a non-partisan, not-for-profit international policy council, and think tank, reports seven years ago, 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.
The system was designed to keep tabs on every Chinese citizen’s behavior. For example, criticizing China’s communist ruler Xi Jinping would result in the lowering of one’s score, which could result in consequences for the individual.
People with low scores could be denied social services, mortgages and even could be banned from traveling on trains or airplanes. There are also “interconnecting repercussions for family, friends, associates, and businesses both in and outside China,” Ina Mitchell, an investigative journalist and co-author with Scott McGregor of the upcoming The Mosaic Effect, told Gatestone.
And this system has now been detected far from communist China’s shores, operating at a restaurant in Vancouver, Canada. The Haidilao Hot Pot has more than 60 cameras watching 30 tables with the video feeds going to China. The restaurant is part of a chain of 935 restaurants that are corporate-owned and began operations in China’s Sichuan province.
The Gatestone Institute points out besides a national security risk, the secretive transmission of video to China is a violation of British Columbian law under the province’s Personal Information Protection Act.
There are several of these systems in place, but the Chinese Communist Party’s central committee has apparently set 2025 as the target for a national system, according to The Diplomat. In the meantime, a lot of information is being collected, the website notes.
Why would Beijing be interested in the patrons of a Vancouver restaurant? Because the Chinese government sees the Canadian city as a gateway into North America, “where they engage in pervasive foreign interference activity, mobilizing overseas United Front units to strategically lure political and business leaders using financial inducements and other incentives to promote the Party’s agenda,” according to The Diplomat.
The restaurant is also located near the house of Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies, who since 2019 has been fighting extradition to the U.S. on charges that she tried to circumvent U.S. sanctions against Iran. In 2020, Meng was indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice on charges of trade secrets theft which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years’ imprisonment, according to The Verge.
China also wants such a system to keep tabs on the rest of the world and has made the effort to do so. From 2012 to 2017, they secretly downloaded data from the computers housed in the Beijing-donated and Chinese-built headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia through Huawei servers, according to the BBC.
China’s Communist Party is creating the world’s first digital totalitarian state and so far, western democracies don’t seem to care, The Gatestone Institute noted.
Just like “Person of Interest”.
And all that cost was 10% for the big guy!
How much of this will they do with real estate they own in America?
“Ask what G5 can do for/to me?”
Democrats and their Repuke flunkies are taking notes.
Another reason/reality to end the current 5 Eyes NSA program and not be in any intel alliance with Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Create a new intel alliance with Japan, Viet Nam and maybe Taiwan or India.
And they wonder why I don’t carry (or own) an I-type phone.
That was my first thought too. They own lots of real estate and businesses in America, at least that’s what I’ve heard.
They will use the surveillance system here too.
Agreed — And is exactly “where” I was going too!
As the “formal cold war” anglo/parliamentary governments “Five Eye” intel apparatus has now embraced totalitarian marxist governance architecture, and our own intel related/derived, non-unifirmed, tech corporations army are in a love affair with totalitarian Chinese government leaders, intel, and goals, the entire apparatus becomes (became) an exponentially greater threat to individual liberty, and our purported central constitutional freedoms and rights.
Without our 4th Amendment, liberty is totally lost, at a most basic level.
Beijing’s marxist affair (or capture) of “FVEY”, with the purpose of engineering global communist subjugation and governance is infinitely shortsighted, foolishly juvenile, and ultimately will gut any “anglo/western” chance of not being controlled by Beijing.
The anti-American left in our government are not just playing with fire, they are burning down their own “house” from which they derive their subjugating political power.
My old flip phone was out-teched so cancelled it. Haven’t bought into the new fangled ones yet but will have to. When that happens, my social score will rise to -5.
In the short term, it has to be poisoned from within, with repeated stu x net introductions inside the Chinlee AI. Over and over and over until they don't trust their output.
Thanks for you input.
As the “formal cold war” anglo/parliamentary governments “Five Eye” intel apparatus has now embraced totalitarian marxist governance architecture, and our own intel related/derived, non-unifirmed, tech corporations army are in a love affair with totalitarian Chinese government leaders, intel, and goals, the entire apparatus becomes (became) an exponentially greater threat to individual liberty, and our purported central constitutional freedoms and rights.”
What % of Americans even know about Five Eye.
Then, maybe 1% of that group understands what the UK aligned with 5 Eyes did to Candidate Trump, and how FISA/FISC were intended to protect us and Trump and failed to do so.
How much monitoring of everyday Americans is done by the UK, Canada and New Zealand and sent to the ChiComs. Australia is probably in that same basket of former allies. Canada’s Covid B$ is some of the worse in the world re taking away freedom of its citizens.
Last, but not least what are the damages, we have been/are doing to the privacy and lives of the citizens of the other 5 Eyes Countries, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
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