Defenders say this is just the latest version of traditional Chinese ways, but that is not the case. Traditionally social trust and good behavior was enforced b

Defenders say this is just the latest version of traditional Chinese ways, but that is not the case. Traditionally social trust and good behavior was enforced by the whole network of social relations and basic values. But in the modern era this has broken down, in part because China has gone through 4 different basic political and economic systems in the last century, and is now on its fifth. So the government is now trying to enforce good behavior and social trust from the top down. Unfortunately, unlike in Confucianism, there is no way to ensure the people at the top are trustworthy, so the whole thing will likely become quite dysfunctional at some point.