Old-Thinker News | March 6, 2020

By Daniel Taylor

During a segment on Fareed Zakaria’s show on CNN last month, Beijing bureau chief for the Washington Post Anna Fifield praised China’s surveillance state and draconian measures in combating Coronavirus.

China has instituted massive quarantines to keep the coronavirus from spreading. How are citizens reacting, & what does the broad effort mean for China's high-tech surveillance state? @annafifield explains.

See the full conversation tomorrow on GPS, @ 10am & 1pm ET on @CNN pic.twitter.com/PtHXvhL9df

— Fareed Zakaria (@FareedZakaria) February 15, 2020

Fifield said:

“Certainly I think that the Chinese government, the lesson that they will probably take away from this whole outbreak is that their draconian measures, their surveillance system, their facial recognition cameras, all of that was the right thing to do… so I’m sure in some ways the communist party will feel vindicated for keeping such close tabs on their population.”