“On some level, it is really an extraordinary sociological political experiment with no real 20th-century precedent,” Mr. Thiel said. “There are ways that probably Stalin was still worse than Xi and killed more people. But the degree of hooks that you have into people is just extraordinary. It’s sort of like the government is in your innermost core and it’s completely out.”
China‘s government uses American-origin high technology to monitor communications and travel and recently announced plans for a cryptocurrency that will track ordinary financial transactions.
Mr. Thiel said Mr. Xi has created a Chinese Communist Party version of St. Augustine’s theology of God: “Totally outside you, totally inside you and knows everything about you.”
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