This thread is scary, because a cynical Chinese leader mischaracterizing the Hong Kong conflict while getting full private briefings about what is actually going on is much less of a threat than a true believer being told what he wants to hear until publicly humiliated by eventshttps://twitter.com/BeijingPalmer/status/1198814005126676481 …
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I've said this before, but there's a dynamic where China combines the worst of two worlds—a very real technological surveillance state, plus a leadership team that is being fed back its own propaganda. This decoupling from reality makes it hard to do GAME THEORY
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An underreported aspect of this too is how the big scary technologies China is using for oppression—like mass facial recognition and AI—don't work that well. Their widespread deployment adds further abitrariness and terror to people's lives. It's phrenology with labor camps.
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Anyway, you don't need AI or a global surveillance network to understand what Hong Kongers want. You don't even need to speak Chinese, they helpfully chant in English from time to time. The fact that this information isn't privately getting through to Beijing is very significant
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It didn't appear to get through to Lam either and she's right there. Possible explanations: not listening/disinterest , or suspicion that it's a plot against them by foreign agitators. Just like a lot of people in the US, center of their own little world and it's all about them.
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It's a real seminar on human nature and power!
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