China: He Who Has The Data Makes The Rules

Jinping's Scientific Dictatorship, aka Technocracy, relies on 'a combination of surveillance, AI, and big data to monitor people’s lives and behavior in minute detail.'  MIT correctly notes that China got these ideas in the mid-1980s, but fails to show how. Namely, it was members of the elite Trilateral Commission who sowed the seeds of Technocracy after they brought China out of the darkness and onto the global economic stage.