My claim is that China is getting the worst of everything—a totalizing surveillance infrastructure, the hucksterism of snake oil big data startups, a sclerotic leadership that is flying blind and is in any case handicapped by its own abstruse ideology, and monstrous corruption
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The things that cure bad information flow: elections, journalism, public forums where it's safe to voice a grievance, public assembly—are suppressed in China. All that still tethers them to reality is participation in the global economy. But that signal is not enough.
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