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Citizens must apply for a ID card, which contains information: name, gender, nationality, date of birth, address, ID number, and biometric information, such as photos, facial features, palm features, fingerprints, DNA.
When cash goes digital, bringing the risks of exclusion, discrimination, and surveillance...Chinese government think facial recognition gives them new instrument that will perfect their rule.
Meet China's Grab and Go grocery store and their numbers are growing fast
American Grab and Go grocery store.
Look at those surveillance cameras!
Xiamen City, 2018
Travellers scanned their ID cards and faces to get into the train station
China builds the world’s largest state security apparatus, including a massive facial recognition surveillance network, a corresponding biometric database, and a national ID card system.
It’s also possible in China to get yin-yang fish: a fish whose body is deep fried while it’s head is protected. “Speed is the key — when you prepare the fish, you can’t hurt its internal organs, so when you serve it, it can stay alive for at least half an hour,”
Drunken live shrimp is a Chinese dish that the shrimps are eaten while still alive.
The method of preparing is quite simple and quick - shrimps are shortly submerged in alcohol, and as soon as the effects of alcohol have taken place and the shrimps have relaxed, they are eaten.
15 MINUTE CITIES in 🇨🇳 China. Each neighborhood zone is separated by a fence with barbed wire. There are 2 to 4 Gates per zone. If you want to leave your zone you will need your QR code/Covid passport and a face scan.
@AndrewKnack This is what China's 15 Minutes cities looks like
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One neighborhood , with hundreds apartment buildings and tens of thousands people , have only few exits, where you need to scan your QR code COVID passport and your face to get in or out.
There are dozens of restaurants, barbershops, fruit shops, grocery stores...etc in this neighborhood, within 15 Minutes walk. But you can only get in or out of it throw the few exits by scanning your QR code COVID passport.
Be careful what you wish for!
Just one day, Chinese government uses razor wire fence and wall to turn this neighborhood into a giant prison, where you need to show your QR code COVID passport at every gate.
JUST IN -- Police in China's Hainan Province are confiscating people's e-bikes.
Chinese government is encouraging people to buy less e-bikes and buy more EVs. Because in their minds e-bikes make China looks cheap,like a third world country.
If your QR code is yellow or red, immediately an alarm goes off. Then security guards will hunt you down and hand you over to authority... you will be locked up in your home or a quarantine camp
🇨🇳 Suqian city.
Here you need to scan your face and verify your QR code COVID passport to get into the farmers (wet) market, to buy your food.