A woman sorting waste while eating at a restaurant next to small waste bins in Shanghai, China. Shanghai’s municipal household waste management regulations are ‘the strictest rubbish classification in history’ and forms part of the nation’s social credit system. – EPA pic, September 6, 2019.
FROM penalising irresponsible dog owners to blacklisting dissenters, critics warn China’s social credit system enables authorities to define “desirable and undesirable behaviour” and could allow unprecedented control of citizens’ lives. The fledgling initiative has sparked fears the authoritarian state is tightening its grip on an already heavily monitored public, ensuring that only those strictly adhering to Communist Party values can prosper.
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