Right the Uyghurs, a word we never knew before.

When faced with credible threat of islamic terror in their country China implemented some harsh, systemic ideas about what to do with it.

I'm sure if they just started two wars in the middle east instead the western community would be way more lenient towards them.

China did what it though was the correct thing and the west happily classified it as racism and religious persecution.

However when the pandemic came China had zero restraint towards applying harsh measures on the bulk of their population regardless of race and relligion. And while their solutions are harsh and possibly incorrect is it really unique on the global stage?

US, the shining city on the hill, when faced with a problem of having inadequate social support systems to help the more recent immigrants decided that it will try to build concentration camps on the teritorry of one of their closest vassals. This can't be correct or humane solution either.

And when it comes to surveillance, China is on the forefront, but US and UK closely follow. What's different is that China does their surveillance overtly and tries to make it socially useful. I don't for one second believe that technologically Palantir and such are more than one step behind.