Business Insider writer get's it right: "President Xi Jinping's vision of a China led by the Communist Party that he chairs is a global technocracy". There is no other option or description of China that fits so well. Xi is exporting China's Technocracy to the whole world.
Unlike Americans, Europeans are not reticent to openly discuss Technocrats and Technocracy in light of their current struggles. France's Technocrats are learning a hard lesson about what happens with over-manipulated citizens.
Although this is a lower court, it sets a precedent for privacy that is urgently overdue now that fingerprint and facial scanning are commonly used unlock tools on smart phones. Police will now have to secure warrants before searching a suspects phone.
War-minded Technocrats within DARPA have one answer for wiping out the enemy: autonomous machines. When DARPA first released Sea-Hunter, there were pledges that it was only for surveillance and not killing. The flip-flop was easily foreseen.
Technocrat engineers are attempting to disrupt education by measuring student attention/focus and giving 'teachers' a window into the mind. Not surprisingly, China jumped at the opportunity for mass testing on 1.2 million students.