Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
China is building an all-seeing, total digital surveillance state. Xi Jinping and the CCP seek cameras, facial recognition, internet data, national ID cards and social credit to integrate into an optimized society. This video explains the history, alongside the 'who what when where why and how' of China's spying on its own people.
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1. Sentinel State, Minxon Pei. 2024 amzn.to/40GhOom
2. Surveillance State, Chin & Lin 2021 amzn.to/4aMNCww
3. We Have Been Harmonized, Strittmatter 2020 amzn.to/4hkHDRW
4. Outsourcing Repression, Ong 2022 amzn.to/4hDqlz6
5. The Perfect Police State Cain 2021 amzn.to/4hDaArZ
6. China’s Security State Guo 2014 amzn.to/4aOcKmj
7. Living with Digital Surveillance in China 2023 amzn.to/4jEr8BJ
8. DoD State Surveillance Prelim Report 2007
9. BrainFacts. Dragonfly Eyes Published31 Aug 2012
10. The Guardian. ‘There’s cameras everywhere’. Johana Bhuiyan. 2021
11. The Political Thought of Xi Jinping. Tsang & Cheung amzn.to/3CIrarA
12. Party of One. Wong 2024 amzn.to/42NwqEZ
13. Beijing Rules, 2023. Bethany Allen. amzn.to/4hN4oO1
14. ‘Censored’, Margaret E. Roberts 2018 amzn.to/4aWNCdb
15. Yuno. July 12, 2024 “Payment landscape in China”
16. BBC. “AI emotion-detection software…” May 2021 Jane Wakefield
0:00-0:39 Intro
0:40-3:46 Cameras
3:47-7:35 Great Firewall
7:36-9:29 Who?
9:30-11:40 History
11:41-15:54 Big Brother's Gifts
Mapping software licensed through MapTiler,and GEOlayers. Thanks to OpenStreetMap and Natural Earth.
Music by Epidemic Sound: nebula.tv/epidemic
Stock video and imagery provided by Getty Images.
China is building an all-seeing, total digital surveillance state. Xi Jinping and the CCP seek cameras, facial recognition, internet data, national ID cards and social credit to integrate into an optimized society. This video explains the history, alongside the 'who what when where why and how' of China's spying on its own people.
★ Access exclusive original content and support your favorite creators. nebula.tv/exploringhistory
★Support on Patreon: patreon.com/williamcfox
Extended Script:
williamcfox.substack.com/p/how-chinas-surveillance-state-works
I uploaded an interview with an expert on America’s surveillance state on Substack and Nebula!
williamcfox.substack.com/p/interview-how-the-us-surveillance
Social Media ▼
Twitter➜ @williamcfox
Instagram➜ @williamcfox
TikTok ➜ @williamcfox
★ NOTE ON SOURCING IN CAPTIONS:
At the end of a sentence with sourcing, something like this will appear:
"The sky is blue. The ocean is blue (17,89)."
The 1st number represents the source number in this description. The 2nd number represents the page number. If the numbers are separated by a semicolon ie (2;3), the numbers represent two different sources.
1. Sentinel State, Minxon Pei. 2024 amzn.to/40GhOom
2. Surveillance State, Chin & Lin 2021 amzn.to/4aMNCww
3. We Have Been Harmonized, Strittmatter 2020 amzn.to/4hkHDRW
4. Outsourcing Repression, Ong 2022 amzn.to/4hDqlz6
5. The Perfect Police State Cain 2021 amzn.to/4hDaArZ
6. China’s Security State Guo 2014 amzn.to/4aOcKmj
7. Living with Digital Surveillance in China 2023 amzn.to/4jEr8BJ
8. DoD State Surveillance Prelim Report 2007
9. BrainFacts. Dragonfly Eyes Published31 Aug 2012
10. The Guardian. ‘There’s cameras everywhere’. Johana Bhuiyan. 2021
11. The Political Thought of Xi Jinping. Tsang & Cheung amzn.to/3CIrarA
12. Party of One. Wong 2024 amzn.to/42NwqEZ
13. Beijing Rules, 2023. Bethany Allen. amzn.to/4hN4oO1
14. ‘Censored’, Margaret E. Roberts 2018 amzn.to/4aWNCdb
15. Yuno. July 12, 2024 “Payment landscape in China”
16. BBC. “AI emotion-detection software…” May 2021 Jane Wakefield
0:00-0:39 Intro
0:40-3:46 Cameras
3:47-7:35 Great Firewall
7:36-9:29 Who?
9:30-11:40 History
11:41-15:54 Big Brother's Gifts
Mapping software licensed through MapTiler,and GEOlayers. Thanks to OpenStreetMap and Natural Earth.
Music by Epidemic Sound: nebula.tv/epidemic
Stock video and imagery provided by Getty Images.
