Table of Contents
Chapter 1: SOCIAL CREDIT SYSTEM (shehui xinyong tixi)
SCS provides rewards or punishments as feedback to citizens, based not just on the lawfulness, but also the morality of their actions, covering economic, social and political conduct.
SCS was formally introduced in a 2014 document called the “Planning Outline for the Construction of a SOCIAL CREDIT SYSTEM”
“…sincerity culture, and promoting honesty and traditional VIRTUEs, it uses encouragement for trustworthiness and constraints against untrustworthiness as incentive mechanisms, and its objective is raising the sincerity consciousness and credit levels”
We have to deconstruct what this means. China is a different People Operating System.
“Credit” (xinyong) does not have a simple equivalent in English common usage. The manadarin word is not only a notion of financial ability to service debt but also characteristics for sincerity, honesty, and integrity.
“VIRTUE” in Western usage means standing out by distinguishing oneself. “VIRTUE” in the SCS, is subjecting ‘good’ and ‘bad’ actions to upfront categorizations based on what can be expected and measured. In doing so, SCS promotes conformity. In SCS speak, VIRTUE is NOT distinguishing oneself.
“Trustworthiness” substitutes autonomous norms for state standards of assessment. It is not a specific quality of financial credibility (xinyong), promise-keeping ability (shouxin) or integrity (chengxin) that is voluntarily evaluated by the relevant industry/communities
SCS links heterogeneous activities such as jaywalking to having access to train tickets. ‘Who someone is’ is an entity that persists through time rather than in an instance. For example in the U.S an Uber score does not affect your ability to eat at a good restaurant.
Let’s look at some additional topographical differences USA v China.
Facebook’s knowledge of its users is its goldmine; Google’s tracks users as they interact with websites. This is Surveillance Capitalism, each has its profit motive to silo its data and an inherent protection against the severity of machine learning algos.
Americans (thankfully) disagree about what good citizenship is. Some ideological expressions focus on rights, others emphasize a shared history, etc.
Any “Good American” algorithm would be stuck dealing with this pluralism, computing a minimalistic and toothless version of “good citizenship” algorithm.
The blacklisted are barred from…
…senior positions in State Owned Enterprises, financial sector, social orgs, civil service, purchasing RE. And barred from conspicuous consumption, traveling, hotels, luxury restaurants, resorts, nightclubs, etc. Restricted from work in many industries such as food, drugs, etc.
SCS also draws upon other market mechanisms and self-regulatory regimes in various sectors that are encouraged to institute further punishments. For example:
Individuals placing calls are notified that “the person you are calling is on the central credit blacklist.” Over 9m plane and 3m rail ticket sales were blocked through the blacklist system by March 2018.
This is not Confucianism, which prioritizes moral education. Rather, the rival Legalism, a philosophy that the ruler should wield punishments should be harsh and numerous due to humans wicked nature and to deter audacious and calculating men from committing less serious offenses.
As of Jan 2018, every entity with a business license in China is required to have an 18-digit unified SOCIAL CREDIT CODE (tongyi shehui xinyong daima)
Here are some examples of that in action:
The Japanese retailer Muji’s was fined 200,000 yuan over packaging that listed Taiwan as a country, violating China’s advertising laws which sanctions any activity ‘damaging the dignity or interests of the state or divulging any state secret’.
In April 2018, the Chinese Civil Aviation Administration accused United Airlines, et al of ‘serious dishonesty’ for violating Chinese LAWs in how they listed Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau on their websites.
Can American citizens find out if our companies have made concessions or changed their behavior as a result of CCP demands?
And it’s not just companies, it’s the worlds elites. China has a lot of pee tapes
Mike Bloomberg likes Xi, says he’s no dictator
But then again
“…shockwaves through many companies operating in China, where many feel they have no option but to comply with demands for bribes to get access to a key growth market”
What deal are these people cutting. Who’s citizenry, laws, culture and money do they report to?
Chapter 2. DISCOURSE POWER
In 2010 Lu Wei former deputy head of the Propaganda Department described the meaning of ‘DISCOURSE POWER’ as referring not only to the ‘right to speak’, but also to guaranteeing the ‘effectiveness and power of speech’.
DISCOURSE POWER is utilized with an amalgamation of propaganda, United Front, agitators and many other levers, to secure the ideological space inside and outside of the party, it transcends geographical borders.
The power to silence and monopolize others’ expression is the power to construct “truth.”
Small examples would get sleepy, so let’s discuss the big stuff, the dangers to the world’s economic stability. China perceives the leading international credit agencies such as Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s, Fitch as enemies of China.
Credit agencies can damage a nation by downgrading their debt ratings and economic forecasts, it is the shock power of “economic nukes”. This is a problem for China as its economy is ludicrous, larceny and lies, strung together by China’s bankers ambitions to avoid re-education camps.
For the CCP, the solution is to increase the DISCOURSE POWER that China’s credit agencies possess on international credit evaluation.
What if China tells International financial institutions that if they truthfully report on China’s weak internal economics, they will not be permitted to do biz in China. This puts the world at risk because China’s debt is everywhere
Chapter 3. China and the movies
China is #2 movie-going country in the world and U.S co’s must please the gate-keeper.
Supply and demand combined with strict controls on what movies get into China, only 34 major American films are allowed into China each year using a quota system.
“Or, you can circumvent the quota system by co-producing the film with a Chinese firm, which makes it a domestic film for quota purposes.”
Our films are being tailored by China.
We get shown a benign view of China, in which China is a normal country, no different from Paris, or Britain, or Germany. But China ain’t that.
In the movie 2012, humanity is saved China built life-saving arcs
In Gravity, Bullock survives by getting to China’s Space Station
Doctor Strange had a Tibetan character changed to a Celtic in order not to acknowledge that such a thing as a “Tibetan” exists
“We need China to be in the fabric of the company. That’s where our Chinese partner Hony comes in…unprecedented collaboration between Chinese investors and Hollywood production”
Chapter 4. NBA and Sports
This happened “…in 2015, NBA…partnership worth a reported US$500 million with Chinese tech giant Tencent – the NBA’s largest international partnership to date”
ESPN also signed a bigly deal with China “…Tencent will pay ESPN for content that will include coverage and analysis of NBA games…Additional sports are expected to be added as other American sports leagues are looking to expand their global reach.”
Lebron is the voice of the #resistance
In the real, real world…Chinese people have been confronting the certain penalties of the SSC to convene in Hong Kong to protest China’s HUMAN RIGHTS abuses and its recent “Anti-Extradition law”
In October ’19 World War Z began, NBA coach Daryl Morly tweeted in support of the protesters and their causes.
China engaged its SOCIAL CREDIT SYSTEM mechanisms and amp’d its DISCOURSE POWER. Every machinery of soft warfare. “…any action that harms China’s interests…”
“King” James Lebron ain’t free speeching
A short time later, “King” proclaims China propaganda. China instructs people talking about Hong Kong to speak of them as violent rioters and to not engage in any media scrum type situations. Just like this
Then ESPN agrees… “explicitly discouraged any political discussion about China and Hong Kong. Multiple ESPN sources confirmed to Deadspin that network higher-ups were keeping a close eye on how the topic was discussed on ESPN’s airwaves.”
LeBron endorses Hillary
– LeBron campaigns w/ Hillary
– LeBron calls Trump supporters ‘uneducated’
– LeBron calls Trump a ‘bum’ & ‘hateful’
– LeBron attacks Trump on border wall
*Mention Communist China atrocities*
Babylon Bee is so funny.
“From protesters in the semi-autonomous Hong Kong to the underground church in China, Chinese people from all walks of life offered their deepest apologies for being insensitive to the struggles of being a rich basketball player”
I sent out a tweet with a simple message “Does this cartoon represent the way you feel? I never objected or thought kneeling was offensive. I’m cool with dissent and protest. But…”
Twitter decided to use its store of big data to target its users in such a way favorable to the economic interests of the CCP and its surrogates in American business.
My poll with a sample size of one, was that Twitter was tuning the feed so that the “anti Lebron” messaging would have a “soon” expiration while his ‘defense’, those calling criticism of him racist, would persist.
Racism was the counter messaging. This is another tactic of China’s war, its called…
Chapter 5. Wedge Politics
The CCP utilizes a complex apparatus they’ve built known as ‘United Front’ (tongyi zhanxian, united battlefront) The CCP recruits foreign business leaders, officials, community leaders, compliant media, insurgencies and useful idiots (said with snark, so be chill) to advance the interests of the party by undermining the integrity of the social, political and cultural institutions it targets for penetration.
Chapter 6. HUMAN RIGHTS, nah
In 2018, China published “Progress in HUMAN RIGHTS over the 40 Years of Reform and Opening Up in China.” China has been publishing white papers on HUMAN RIGHTS for almost 30 years. Its first issue was a response to the criticisms after Tiananmen. It’s DISCOURSE POWER.
China’s new self aggrandizing stance on HUMAN RIGHTS is coupled with its desire for a “global community of shared destiny”, repeated throughout
The innocuous language “hides deeper meanings in the discourse of international relations – a desire to reinforce orthodox interpretations of principle of national sovereignty and nonintervention in internal affairs, undermine the legitimacy of international mechanisms to monitor HUMAN RIGHTS, avoid name and shame tactics and sanctions, and weaken protections of HUMAN RIGHTS defenders and independent media.”
#NeverAgain is #HappeningAgain
The Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region has a population of +/-20m. 8m are an ethnic and cultural group called the Uyghurs (wee-gurs)
Since China’s occupation of East Turkistan in 1949 the CCP has been relentlessly destroying Uyghur culture and religion.
The Uighurs have been persecuted under the label of “Nationalists”, “Counter revolutionaries” and “Separatists”.
An investigation documented detention camps that are part of a massive program of subjugation in the region of Xinjiang. Since the start of 2017, 28 facilities have expanded their footprint by more than 2m sq. meters.
China at first denied the existence of the camps, then retrospectively legalized the dragnet and began a propaganda rewrite, making the camps job training centers.
In Western societies “Islamophobia” is controversial and as a whole is a marginal movement. It is publicly opposed as an offense to human decency, its expressions are limited by legal and political institutions.
In China, Islamophobia is institutionalized. It is “VIRTUE“.
Their common rhetor and expressions of it on social media have made them the world’s foremost purveyor of anti-Islamic ideology. This, in turn, has translated into broad public support for China’s intensifying oppression of Muslims
There is no historical record of HUMAN RIGHTS in China. In its cultural framework, it is the well-being of the group or the whole, not of the individual, that holds precedence. The entire People Operating System of China would collapse of the weight of “individuals”
Harvesting organs: The China Tribunal, chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice, prosecutor at the tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, at the conclusion of their investigation…“certain that Falun Gong as a source – probably the principal source – of organs for forced organ harvesting.”
Have you ever seen Bodies the Exhibition? Did you know it has a disclaimer…
“…Premier cannot independently verify that the human remains you are viewing are not those of persons who were incarcerated in Chinese prisons”
Chapter 7. LAW
“Our public security system is the product of a dictatorship” “Police use dictatorial measures on anyone who resists them. Ordinary people have no way to defend themselves. Instead of rule of LAW, we have chaos.” Qin Yanhong
The Judicial System is entirely controlled by the CCP. The “Three Supremes” (sange zhishang) requires the judiciary to first and foremost observe the supremacy of the Party’s cause.
The Legislative System is almost impossible to comprehend, notoriously complex and ineffective. There is roughly 1 lawyer for 10k individuals in China, as compared to a ratio of 1 to 550 in the U.S
Police and courts rely mainly on perfunctory proceedings to resolve criminal cases. “Chinese courts convict more than 99.9 percent of defendants” “Only 1,039 of more than 1.2m people were found not guilty in the country…acquittal rate of around 0.08%”
China implemented “more death sentences than the rest of the world combined”. Amnesty believes thousands of executions and death sentences occurred in 2017 in China, where they are considered a state secret”
Nothing’s gonna change, it doesn’t get better. “We must never follow the path of Western ‘constitutionalism,’ ‘separation of powers,’ or ‘judicial independence,’’ Xi said.
Chapter 8. China won’t be debated because…
CNN hears no evil “China is one of the most attractive territories in which we operate…This alliance will give all our businesses a savvy and accomplished partner as we strive to bring our leading brands and storytelling to people everywhere, across a wide range of devices”
Disney sees no evil “China is incredibly important, where we have invested an enormous amount of time, people, resources and money, in growing our business over the last decades”
The End?