China: The Perfect High-Tech Totalitarian State

[TomSea]

China: The Perfect High-Tech Totalitarian State
Judith Bergman

The 30th anniversary on June 4 of the Chinese regime's 1989 massacre of pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square served to highlight the extreme censorship in China under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and President Xi Jinping.

The Tiananmen anniversary is referred to euphemistically in mainland China, as 'the June Fourth Incident'. The regime there evidently fears that any talk, let alone public commemoration, of that historical event will stir up anti-regime unrest, which could endanger the Chinese Communist Party's absolute power.

The internet in China is under control of the Chinese Communist Party, especially through the rigorous censorship practiced by the party's top internet censor, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), established in 2014. In May 2017, according to a Reuters report, the CAC introduced strict guidelines requiring all internet platforms that produce or distribute news "to be managed by party-sanctioned editorial staff" who have been "approved by the national or local government internet and information offices, while their workers must get training and reporting credentials from the central government".

Read more at: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14365/china-totalitarian-technology

[Fishrrman]

"China: The Perfect High-Tech Totalitarian State"

For them, "1984" really was "a training manual"...

[The_Reader_David]

China is engaged in a project to figure out exactly how little freedom is necessary to keep a market economy fully functional.  They do allow quite a lot of freedom in the economic sphere and in the chaotic, seemingly lawless, no rules of the road way the Chinese are allowed to drive electric scooters (think "green" Vespa, not kids' toy), but only in areas that the Party regards as irrelevant to its control.  The intrusiveness of Party and State are not really 1984-like, not because the Party wouldn't be happy to run things that way, but because the Party has decided that running things that way is not optimal for their own power.