Tag: Xi Jinping and twentieth congress

The zero covid text on china flag 3d rendering

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Heather Zeiger
Date
October 11, 2022

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China, Medicine and Health, Politics

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China’s Covid Theater: It’s Not Really About the Disease

_{Not exactly. As the Twentieth National Congress looms, the Chinese Communist Party does not want any COVID in Beijing} _{Heather Zeiger

October 11, 2022

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The Chinese Communist Party’s zero-Covid policy, heralded by Xi Jinping, is killing China’s economy and sinking citizens’ morale. Zero-Covid is viewed as a litmus test for support for the Communist Party, and Xi Jinping in particular. The goal is not saving lives but ensuring that the virus does not spread to Beijing ahead of the twentieth National Congress on October 16. Some hope that restrictions will ease after the National Congress. Others are less optimistic. The CCP under Xi Jinping declared “war on the virus” two years ago but the casualties in the Party’s pathogenic war have been the Chinese people. In the lead-up to the Twentieth National Congress in which Xi Jinping will announce his third term as General Read More ›

Surveillance cameras at Tiananmen square in Beijing, China

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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
July 1, 2022

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China, Data Privacy, Surveillance

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China Is Quite Serious About Total Surveillance of Every Citizen

_{Local governments are buying enough surveillance equipment to constantly watch 1.6 billion people, documents show} _{Heather Zeiger

July 1, 2022

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The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously… There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment… It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live — did live, from habit that became instinct — in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinised. – George Orwell, 1984 The New York Times in partnership with ChinaFile has come out with a new report on the extent of China’s surveillance state. It is nothing short of an attempt to achieve total surveillance of its 1.4 billion people: Read More ›