China wants to mobilize entire nation in counter-espionage

Wow, just wow....

It's clear Xi is bent on establishing an Orwellian state...

I'm not sure the Chinese people will go for that...

Time for another Tiananmen Square...

China has been doing in foreign countries for years what they’re trying to stop in their own country.

If you know a little bit about the Chinese the whole thing is kind of laughable. The great majority of Chinese want as little to do with the CCP or government agencies as is possible and still live their lives. As my own family likes to say, "the government does what it wants to do and we do what we want to do". They try as much as possible not to draw attention to themselves as, in our experience, any attention by the CCP or the government never leads to anything good.

The young in China especially are disillusioned and disheartened. They are "lying flat", doing the bare minimum to get by. Many say they are not just China's lost generation but instead say they are China's "last generation". Their term. They are not marrying or having kids because they think it is a bad thing to bring a kid up in a nation like China that offers no future. Xi and his yes men are living in a fantasy land of their own construction as detached as it is possible to be from day to day lives of their citizens.

They want to mobilize the entire state in reporting on their neighbors, too.

Wish I could Speak Chinese apart from Ni how mar?

The natural next step to the surveillance state, make every dirty little opportunist an informant. Someone should tell China Orwell wrote 1984 as a warning not a guide book. Dark times ahead for the Middle Kingdom.

Oh dear, this is what Hitler did in Germany at the start of the Third Reich. Every one spied on every one else to curry favour with the Gestapo. And it worked. And just think, this was before the times of camera's every where.

This is a positive aspect. Citizens should look out for the best interests for their countries.

What a miserable regime.

How long before the lack of reporting someone else isn't folded into the CCP Social Credit system?

Don't most countries have a way to report crimes already? "If you see something, say something" comes to mind.

Of course, in China, anyone with a camera taking photos could be reported for espionage.

Don't forget what happened in the USSR when neighbors were forced to report on neighbors. It cause a fear of everyone. That's good for dictators, bad for regular people.