News Analysis Provincial authorities in China’s province of Henan are deadly serious about watching you. They recently requested bids for a nearly million-dollar surveillance system that specifically tracks foreigners, including journalists, students, and migrant women illegally seeking work in the country—they are “suspicious people” according to Henan authorities. The system is likely operational now, and uses 3,000 security cameras and facial recognition technology. It color codes people into red, yellow, and green risk levels and has an army of police waiting to spring into action against any red-level threats, such as journalists with criminal records. According to Reuters and the BBC, reporters from which saw documents provided by the surveillance analytics company IPVM, the Henan provincial government tendered the bid on July 29, right after negative reporting about floods in Henan unnerved the authorities, who criticized the foreign coverage and were apparently unable to track journalists who published photos of, …