The Xinjiang Autonomous Region is arguably the first high-tech police state in the world, integrating labor-intensive, Stasi tactics with innovative digital ai, biometric, and surveillance technologies that surpasses the wildest nightmares of George Orwell.
Surprisingly, despite having an even higher police to citizen ratio than even East Germany, the poster child of the all-pervasive police state, economic growth rates were comparable to other, less politically restrictive provinces of China. Much of the novel technological innovations used to police and detain the Uyghur minority were developed by private companies with extensive ties to the local administration, often lobbying the state and competing with other private actors to secure profitable contracts to intensify and deepen preexisting surveillance capabilities. Sometimes, said capitalists even pushed the state to further intensify surveillance to increase profits, creating a virtuous cycle of ever increasing totalitarian surveillance against any potential enemy of the state.
The profit-maximizing, self-interested, and competitive behavior of private companies alongside the atomization of private capital's bargaining power in a totalitarian state (province?) such as Xinjiang helps facilitate collaboration with the State in the expansion and improvement of digital surveillance technology in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region without sacrificing either economic efficiency nor technological innovation as in the past Communist Totalitarian Regimes with their stifling command economies. Thus vindicating Peter Liberman's conviction of the long term economic viability and cumulativity of authoritarian capitalist regimes and the increase in the efficacy of surveillance and repression under more developed, modernized states
These two studies prove the efficacy of authoritarian, even totalitarian state capitalism in providing sufficient wealth creation and technological innovations, thus serving as a viable alternative for liberal modernity even in the Information Age
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