By Selwyn Duke
Making totalitarianism truly total, China’s government is becoming the world’s first all-seeing state. But at issue aren’t just Beijing’s 200 million surveillance cameras — one for every seven citizens — which it uses to watch its people. Now the Chinese autocrats want to monitor another realm, one we’d always considered safe from intrusion: your mind.
What’s more, with so-called “brain wearables” currently being sold in our nation, China’s thought police may already be at work in the U.S.
Beijing has long been trying to control Americans’ thinking through what it calls the projection of “soft power.” It has bribed our schools and colleges into accepting its “Confucius Institutes,” which pump Chinese propaganda into young American minds. It has succeeded in censoring our movies — to ensure China is portrayed as its autocrats would prefer — by threatening to deny noncompliant filmmakers access to its huge market. Beijing has also bullied our businesses into doing its bidding (for example, into not portraying Taiwan as a country).
Furthermore, China has been improving its abilities to engage in cyberspying without detection
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