At this rate, China is 10 years away from being the premiere surveillance state in all history. I mean, think of all the laboratory requirements they meet that

At this rate, China is 10 years away from being the premiere surveillance state in all history. I mean, think of all the laboratory requirements they meet that no one else does in this grand experiment: - Single party state - President-for-life - Full-spectrum surveillance of their own citizens with little to no oversight - Court system that criminalizes political dissent - Large "re-education" and "work-based" prison system - Widespread and automated censorship of media and online discussion in all forms, combined with a willing rewriting of history (e.g., Tiananmen in 1989 has been completely scrubbed, and discussion of it in any form is deleted within minutes) - "Social score" system that integrates the surveillance system into the legal and bureaucratic systems - Limited access to external information of any form outside of the Great Firewall - The money, capability, and the political willingness to implement and expand all of the above as needed I am hard-pressed right now to imagine any other country that is drifting more quickly to a dystopian surveillance state than China.