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Surveillance State

Pekingology

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The First Year of the Corona Virus Epidemic in China

The first year f the corona virus outbreak really cana reinforce china's belief that state surveillance, a inditosafe surveillance, was ultimately a good thing for its own citizens. People are starting to get very upset at being told by, ie, a drone, robot dog, to put the mask on,. or like ina, drones flown by police, telling them itout. But whati think has been interesting in places like shanghai, where we had ovieseyo had that sort of dramatic and traconian lock down, whe you had people complaining that they couldn't get foodIndstead of becoming really desperate. Is one take away from that is also that

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