Serdan, 2 years ago

https://merics.org/en/comment/chinas-social-credit-score-untangling-myth-reality

Often, the SoCS is merely invoked as a metaphor: either to depict some technological threat at home or to portray a techno-dystopian China.

This is symptomatic of a tendency to see China not as a real place with real people, but as an abstract “negative opposite” of “us”.