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rational security, chatter, law fair no bull, and the aftermath.

I mean, there's a public good to the surveillance side,

but there's also a really coercive element to that.

Same thing with the contact tracing.

Great for public health.

You know, they can figure out if you might be at risk,

but then it's got this other side where they can use this to control your freedom of movement,

and it's already happening.

So that on top of the way things were going politically,

this country has changed so much in these 10 years.

And so that's what I set out to do,

to show and to give a sense as much as possible,

who he is and how he might think,

and why this ideology is so important to him,

and why the Communist Party is so important to him,

and then to also understand how that has impacted the way China has taken a turn

in this direction over the last decade.

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