China is erecting a technological web to comprehensively police every person, at all times. Propaganda apps, such as “Study the Great Nation,” downloaded under state pressure by over 100 million Chinese, come with back doors for “super-user” access by the CCP. Personal devices can now be remotely scanned by police. As the pontifical Aid to the Church in Need states in its Religious Freedom in the World Report 2021, this high-tech surveillance makes ‘Big Brother’ look like an amateur.įacial- and gait-recognition cameras bristle on street corners and parks, and inside churches, mosques and temples. Regional differences seen in the strictness of CCP directives’ enforcement will be a thing of the past. No longer must the Party rely on neighborhood cell informants and factory floor commissars, whose commitment to spying on their family, friends and neighbors might not be sufficiently zealous. persons from investing in “Chinese companies that undermine the security or democratic values of the United States and our allies.” Identifying 59 Chinese companies in the new list of prohibited entities, Biden’s Order explicitly singles out the threat posed by Chinese surveillance technology outside China, and that is used to facilitate repression or serious human rights abuses.Ĭhina’s surveillance technology, the use of which Biden calls “unusual and extraordinary threat,” is becoming the primary means by which Beijing is forcing ideological conformity with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) policies and practices on the grassroots level at home. The new order reaffirms that the Chinese Communist military poses an “ongoing national emergency” and prohibits U.S. This is as much a religious freedom and human rights sanction as a national security one. capital from resourcing Chinese companies, including subsidiaries, that form part of China’s military-industrial complex. On June 3, President Biden signed an Executive Order expanding Trump era restrictions on U.S. American investors will have to tread carefully in considering Chinese companies for their portfolios.
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