For a long time, American companies were deeply involved in building the Chinese surveillance state. But under the Trump administration, US policy towards China started to get more confrontational. A lot of tech companies are pulling back or they're being forced to pull back from their partnerships with Chinese surveillance companies.
The protests in China might force the government to back down from its extreme Covid restrictions and ramp up its extreme surveillance programs. The Wall Street Journal’s Josh Chin explains.
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and edited by Sean Rameswaram who also hosted.
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