What Next TBD: Big Brother, Big Tech and China

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🗓️ 30 October 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

There are some 400 million surveillance cameras installed in China, one for every three to four civilians. Built with the help of American tech companies, the surveillance state was pitched to the public as a way to make society safer and more efficient. But after severe lockdowns during COVID, the public has been objecting out of the eye of the camera lens. Protests are being written on bathroom walls. Guest: Josh Chin, deputy bureau chief, China, for the Wall Street Journal Host: Lizzie O’Leary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	When I got Josh Chin from the Wall Street Journal on the line, I wanted to show him a video.
0:14.8	It's from Beijing on October 13th.
0:17.7	Right before China's Communist Party Congress met to give Xi Jinping a precedent-breaking
0:22.9	third term.
0:23.9	Right, so in this video, what you have is a, well, it turns out to be a one-man protests.
0:32.0	He's the top of bridge called Sittong Bridge, which is in the northwestern part of Beijing
0:36.6	and the university district.
0:38.3	It's a really busy intersection, tons of traffic.
0:41.0	You can see cars flowing underneath it.
0:44.0	And he's standing on the bridge.
0:45.0	He's got, there's something on fire.
0:46.6	And he has two banners.
0:50.1	One says a bunch of things on it.
0:53.2	It's essentially saying, we're tired of COVID tests.
0:58.0	We want to eat.
0:59.0	We're tired of lockdowns.
1:00.0	We want freedom.
1:01.0	That sort of thing.
1:02.0	And the other one calls for the, quote unquote, autocratic dictator or the autocratic
1:10.0	traitor Xi Jinping to be deposed.
1:12.6	So Xi Jinping being a leader of China.
1:15.4	So it's a really a pretty remarkable scene in China.
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