> "China’s cities, roads and villages are now studded with more cameras than the rest of the world combined, analysts say — one for every two people.

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> “'Because of this technology … we have no freedom at all,' said Yang Guoliang’s elder daughter, Yang Caiying, now in exile in Japan. 'At the moment, it’s us Chinese that are suffering the consequences, but sooner or later, Americans and others, too, will lose their freedoms.'”

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> "China didn’t have this kind of thing before,” said Wang, a former Chinese police official in Xinjiang who asked to be identified only by last name for fear of retaliation. “These concepts all came from the West.”

> "In the meantime, Beijing was transforming Xinjiang into the most heavily surveilled place on earth, sweeping around a million people into camps and prisons."