>These Chinese surveillance state stories are all really tame compared to the abuses of the American program
You are wrong.
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/05/31/china-has-turn...
You are wrong.
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/05/31/china-has-turn...
> In 2014, former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden said in a public debate, “We kill people based on metadata.”
> According to multiple reports and leaks, death-by-metadata could be triggered, without even knowing the target’s name, if too many derogatory checks appear on their profile. “Armed military aged males” exhibiting suspicious behavior in the wrong place can become targets, as can someone “seen to be giving out orders.” Such mathematics-based assassinations have come to be known as “signature strikes.”
> “When I learned about signature strikes, that was incredible,” Faisal says. “If the criteria is being armed or having a beard – that is everyone in Yemen.”
1. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/how-...
Chinese concentration camps and black jails are at the level of WWII era horrors. They disappear people around the world just by sending made up arrest request and taking them to China.
Drone assassination program, kills based off metadata score.
Global rendition and torture program. Largest prison population on the planet, exhibiting UN criticized torture, forced sterilization.
China:
Has no drone assassination program. Does not kill based off metadata score.
National rendition program.
Tortures, disappears, organ harvest, forced rendition from foreign countries based on mass and metadata in thousands or tens of thousands peer year (ethnicity, gender, number of foreign phone calls, or family members outside country). People in concentration camps are executed "on demand" in order to provide organs to recipients.
But at least your argument has a strong thesis.
The Chinese program is about homeland security and domestic stability.
I am completely and entirely correct.