Cheap manufactured products are not China's primary exports, but social engineering technologies are. Authoritarian regimes are eagerly adopting China's dystopian surveillance and censorship technologies, using data and manipulation to maintain their power.
As a Technocracy, China is driven to create infrastructure and develop the global supply chain, both of which are central to its Belt and Road initiative. Europe is playing both sides of the fence with America on one hand, and China on the other.
Employers have joined the surveillance state by requiring their workers to wear GPS tracking devices that monitor their every move in the field, turning them into digital slaves. This is the natural outcome of Technocracy: Scientific Dictatorship.
China is a Technocracy but it is also totalitarian, and is exhibiting many of the characteristics of Hitler's Third Reich: concentration camps, institutionalized racism. ubiquitous command and control, environmental rhetoric, etc.
TN has repeatedly warned that the China model of Technocracy and Scientific Dictatorship was coming to America, and here it is. Detroit, New Orleans and San Diego are all bent on total surveillance of their citizens.
Technocrats at Google love Technocrats in China much more than they love America or its Citizens. It's time to force Google to break with China on oppressing its citizens via Scientific Dictatorship, aka Technocracy.
China's Social Scoring System is Scientific Dictatorship, aka Technocracy, in action. Blacklisted citizens are shamed and shunned by friends, employers, banks and social services, and their 'sentence' is permanent
China has raced way ahead of America on setting 5G standards and hold twice as many patents as we do. Furthermore, Huawei is the leading producer of 5G-related hardware. As a Technocracy, China is pouring billions into 5G rollout because they recognize how critical it will be to implementing their Scientific Dictatorship.
Asia is morphing into Technocracy, with China leading the way. Communism and Socialism are fading away, even as the trappings remain. Facing a potential enemy demands that we know who he is and what he believes.
This is an excellent and scholarly article on Technocracy in China. Note that it was Zbigniew Brzezinski, co-founder of the Trilateral Commission, who brought China and its premier, Deng Xiaoping, out of its dark ages in 1978. This is where China's Technocracy sprung forth.