PREMIUM: Contemplations #168 | Just How Dystopian Is China?
Josh assesses just how dystopian modern day China is based upon factors such as the social credit system, surveillance state and use of forced labour.
Reading List
Dang'an - wikipedia.org
Hukou - wikipedia.org
China executes two for tainted milk scandal - theguardian.com
Merics number of documents map - merics.org
In China you get a special warning before you call people who owe money, telling you to get them to pay up - businessinsider.com
Life as one of China’s 13 million ‘deadbeats’ means slow trains, special ring tones - scmp.com
China’s Social Credit System: Scope of Information Collection and Punishments for Untrustworthy Entities - china-briefing.com
Social credit and corporate risk-taking: Evidence from China - sciencedirect.com
Verification problems prevented woman from entering shop - twitter.com
Staffless shop - twitter.com
Crowd with QR code - twitter.com
QR drone checkpoint - twitter.com
Surveillance cameras - twitter.com
China could use anti-fraud app to monitor Tibetans - report - bbc.co.uk
China offers citizens cash and ‘spiritual rewards’ for spying tipoffs - theguardian.com
Foxconn suicides - wikipedia.org
North Koreans working in China 'exploited like slaves' - bbc.co.uk
Volkswagen, BMW and Mercedes hit by Xinjiang forced labour complaint - ft.com
Canada's corporate watchdog probes Ralph Lauren on alleged use of forced labor in China - reuters.com
Xi Jinping's never-ending hunt for corruption in the Communist Party - bbc.co.uk
Yang Hengjun: Australian writer given suspended death sentence in China - bbc.co.uk
Persecution of Uyghurs in China - wikipedia.org
Persecution of Falun Gong - wikipedia.org
Air pollution comparison - wikipedia.org
Pink pollution - twitter.com
Air pollution in China killing 4,000 people every day - independent.co.uk
This Chinese “Dystopian” Apartment Building Houses 20K Residents And They Never Need To Leave - boredpanda.com
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