Commentary
Chinese leader Xi Jinping is hell-bent on achieving a modern version of the surveillance state portrayed in George Orwell’s masterpiece “1984” that enables state control over business enterprises, the media, other institutions, and individuals through round-the-clock monitoring of the activities of Chinese citizens.
The main component of Xi’s evolving surveillance state involves the evolutionary development of an automated social credit system that enables the state to reward or punish the behavior of people and businesses as deemed appropriate by communist government bureaucrats.
Other countries are envious of China’s social credit system. They are dabbling with their own approaches to social controls modeled after what the Chinese communists have been able to achieve (so far)….