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China’s rapid suppression of Shanghai’s 2022 unrest reveals a new model of digital-era control: dissent is treated as a data anomaly, flagged, quarantined, and erased before it can grow. By merging automated monitoring with offline policing, China has built an operating system for social stability, one now influencing governance across the Indo-Pacific.

In Xinjiang, China has built one of the most advanced surveillance states in history—an algorithmic system that turns daily life into data for control. Through AI-driven policing, biometric tracking, and corporate complicity, Beijing’s “stability maintenance” has become a model for global authoritarianism.