The New Middle Kingdom, a vast propaganda theme park

«It was my first visit, and at Chinese passport control I had my fingerprints recorded and my photo taken to be fed into a system of web-cameras across the country that would instantly identify me wherever I might be. lndeed, the country can be viewed as a vast propaganda theme park offering every method of manipulation and coercion that I have touched on in this book, and more. ln western China, there are labor camps right out of mid-twentieth-century totalitarian dictatorships, where entire communities of Muslim Üighurs are indiscriminately rounded up and hauled off for "re-education" because the government is worried. that they might want independence. At other times, the situation can be more reminiscent of the 1970s.»

Peter Pomerantsev, "This is not propaganda"