The New York Times's chilling multimedia package on China's use of "smart city" tech to create an open-air prison

The authors make the point that China sells its surveillance tech around the world as a “scalpel,” but in Xinjiang, it is a “sledgehammer” – an overwhelming show of force that is intended to instill terror to such a degree that even attempting to evade it is unthinkable.

That… and seeing the people of Xinjiang as nothing more than lab rats.

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