Kevin Rudd
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Well, those people all tracked down through surveillance systems, their phone locations, etc., and whisked away.
And so understand that the surveillance state, through iris recognition, gait recognition, facial recognition, the monitoring of all your payments, which are all done electronically…
means that, frankly, the tools available to the surveillance state today is stuff that Mao and Stalin would have dreamed of way back when.
So that's number two.
Number three goes to the core of the economic dilemma which the party faces at present.
Effectively, through a series of central economic policy decisions, what Xi Jinping has said and what they are now doing is placing an absolute priority on, let's call it, the supply side of the economy rather than the private demand side of the economy as a growth vehicle.
And the supply side of the economy is manufacturing, it's industry, it's high technology, it's
It's ensuring that we have complete control over our own supply chains and that we progressively control the supply chains of the world.
That's what we're doing.
Because against a future national security crisis over Taiwan, we will not allow our country to be vulnerable to external pressure.
And that's what they're doing.
That is therefore sacrificing the normal evolution of private domestic consumption as the driver of growth.
And if you look at China's domestic savings rate, which remains high, the private domestic consumption rate, which remains low relative to where they would normally be as a low middle income country.
there is a direct trade-off here.
So we are likely to see continued lower growth in pursuit of these national economic, industrial policy, national security objectives in the economy.
with this trade-off.
But the problem is lower levels of employment, higher levels of youth unemployment, and people, frankly, becoming increasingly disenchanted.
They see it as a problem, but in Xi Jinping's calculus, they see it as the lesser problem against the greater problem, which is national economic self-reliance and national economic dominance in the driving technologies of the future.
What they call in the party's discourse the new productive forces, which is essentially AI, quantum, and everything else.
If you want evidence of this, just look at
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