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by Massimo Introvigne
Every camera that tracks a Uyghur through the streets of Kashgar began its life as a line in a budget. Somebody drafted a tender, a company won it, and an invoice was paid. “Monitoring the Frontier,” a new report by the Washington-based research group C4ADS, follows that trail of signatures and stamps through the procurement archives of the Chinese state. What emerges is a map of the commercial machinery that keeps the gaze of the Party fixed on Tibetans, Uyghurs, Mongols, and the people of Hong Kong.
The researchers chose their sources deliberately. In their words, “government records offer a novel lens on China’s surveillance apparatus because, unlike secondary public reporting or victim testimony, they document the state’s purchasing decis...
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