China’s New Tool for Social Control: A Credit Rating for Everything
I&#x27;m not sure about this. It&#x27;s going to be so disastrous, reminiscent of Cultural Revolution in some spiritual form, to try to force human nature into quantifiable scoring system that relies on subjective truth that is determined by a central government.<p>Then again this is China, people have no way of speaking out against their government without risking their lives, and the government has no obligation other than maintaining their power over the population.<p>I almost feel as if Xi is losing his grip on the population by introducing drastic internal policies like this that only names goals that appear to benefit the greater good but almost certainly driving his own agenda, even if it earns the ire of his surrounding peers.<p>A foreign policy analysis of Xi&#x27;s external facing policies are almost certainly always to further his internal grip which explains the bizarre &amp; seemingly counter-productive positions he took against North Korea and South China Sea, that further drove neighbouring countries to America&#x27;s arms....but with strange turn of events it seems that they will be undone from Trump&#x27;s camp, much to the delight of Putin &amp; Xi.<p>Time will tell, but it&#x27;s doubtful we will have anything but a government mouthpiece statician announcing the success of such policies.<p>It&#x27;s tough to know the real truth in societies where it is actively suppressed and manipulated by a single central entity. It&#x27;s also difficult to say how long such systems will last without continuously taking on more risky and expensive internal policies that lags behind changing technology that disseminates information.<p>but what&#x27;s that saying? The person wielding the biggest stick in the room is the source of truth implying force is always the lowest common denominator in human societies. Afterall, America wouldn&#x27;t be where it is today without its 14 nuclear powered floating airports with the most advanced weapon technologies that casts a shadow on any port it chooses to refuel in.