What Next TBD: Big Brother, Big Tech and China

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4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2022

⏱️ 40 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	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
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0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
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0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers.
0:25.2	We Were Liars. New series, watch now.
0:28.2	Only on Prime Video.
0:43.7	When I got Josh Chin from The Wall Street Journal on the line, I wanted to show him a video.
0:46.5	It's from Beijing on October 13th.
0:53.4	Right before China's Communist Party Congress met to give Xi Jinping a precedent-breaking third term.
0:54.3	Right. So in this video, what you have is a, what turns out to be a one-man protest.
1:01.5	He's the top of bridge called Sittong Bridge, which is in the northwestern part of Beijing
1:06.4	and the university district. It's a really busy intersection, tons of traffic. You can see cars flowing
1:12.2	underneath it. And he's standing on the bridge. He's got there's something on fire. And he has
1:18.4	two banners. One says a bunch of things on it, but it's essentially saying, you know, we don't,
1:25.6	we're tired of COVID tests, we want to eat,
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