StrategyPage has a long essay on China, and if you go down into the article past the part about the Wuhan virus, they discuss how this is being done in Venezuela:
The most valuable service China has done for the socialist Venezuelan government (aside from helping rebuild the collapsed oil industry) has been to help use police state tech to better control an angry population.
China has such tech and has agreed to export it to Venezuela and assist with the installation of its newly developed SCR (Social Credit Rating).the Chinese have perfected this in their western provinces (where most of the population is Uighur Muslims)
China helped adapt the SCR system to Venezuela, especially the issuance or ID cards (for individuals and businesses) linked to an SCR database.
Most of the population depends on the government for basic necessities, like food. Everyone will get an ID card that must be used to get anything from the government. A low SCR score means you go hungry.
The more affluent can pay a bribe to get around SCR problems. Venezuela is enormously corrupt but if you cannot pay a bribe you cannot get around the SCR system.
A bad SCR makes it more difficult to get a good job, a bank loan or a passport. SCR scores depend on what the government sees, hears or reads via that growing network of sensors and informants.You can see why the post Mugabe dictatorship in Zimbabwe is eager to get their hands on this technology, and you can see why I wonder why the western press doesn't get more upset about this linkage of political control with the banking system.
the good news? it's a windfall for authorities who take bribes.
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