Watch the documentary. The state observes any move you make.

Dude, each single app she has on her phone is from a private company. The state doesn’t even have an app, and it doesn’t need one.

To paraphrase what the documentary says: The private companies are creating the apps, but the Chinese party-state makes the recipes. And the state has access to every single piece of information. The state decides what happens with the data, and what ‘features’ are added. The party gets what it wants.

That’s what the documentary explains explicitly.

It’s an Orwellian nightmare.

Watch the documentary. Each individual gets a score, and this score changes depending on your behaviour and the everyday decision you make - what you drink you buy, what food you eat. Whatever the party deems as desired or undesired behaviour, the score is increased or decreased.

It depends how people are asked imo. Most such surveys are done on Chinese social media or in similar surveys where individual answers can be tracked. According to polls done in China, the vast majority of citizens also agree that China is a good democracy and that they trust their government.

But what else would people say? Openly disagreeing with the government can put you in big trouble in China. It’s basically a choice between being supportive of what the government does or risking to simply disappear.

the social credit score as it is imagined by westerners with AIs tracking your every move to make a number go up or down that determines your standing in society is fiction.

No, it isn’t fiction. It is real.

Every Chinese citizen gets a score, to which points are added or deducted depending on individual everyday actions.

The system rewards citizens based on their accumulated “score,” which basically reflects their alignment with state-approved values. A high score grants valuable incentives and preferential access to public services. For example, citizens with good credit may be exempt from paying deposits when using public hospitals or libraries, receive discounts on public transportation, and benefit from streamlined processes for certain international visas. Conversely, acts like running a red light or jaywalking can result in public shaming and a loss of points.

Based on this social credit system, the Chinese population is divided into 4 classes of citizens, depending on your score.

There is a documentary by a French journalist and his (Chinese) wife who were living in China’s capital Beijing. The documentary has been made in 2023, but there is an edited version from 2025 (I watched the film back in 2023 and also the 2025 version; as far as I remember, the 2025 edits reflect the role of AI in the system).

Here is a YT link: Life Under China’s Social Credit System: A Dystopian Reality?

Here an alternative Invidious link: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=p19nYrjZ1dQ

The documentary lasts 52 minutes.

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The stories on this site are exclusively AI generated. It’s another low-quality piece by @cm0002 who spreads low-quality articles through several alt accounts.

There are many good article on this subject, I posted one just yesterday in this community: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/52030169

They have to. China’s economy (and likely the government?) would be facing even more severe trouble without extensive export growth. Foreign markets are the country’s only lifeline after a decade of so of failed economic policy. The world is waking up only slowly, but at least supply chain diversification is underway.

It all depends what Ukraine gets in return I would say.

Source (Sixth Tone) is a Chinese state-funded soft-power outlet. That should not be relevant to this report, which is simply decent journalism.

This is always relevant, one reason being that they intentionally suppress certain information to spread propaganda and propagnada only. It’s the outlet’s sole raison d’être. This so-called “soft power” comes from the same dictatorial political system. It is an inherently bad and unreliable source and has nothing to do with decent journalism.

It is a really racist and dictatorial policy:

The new law was needed to provide better legal safeguards for the party’s “ethnic work” in order to “maintain the security and stability of China’s border regions and ethnic regions […]

and

[there is] “no way” that non-Han people would be able to safely express “any type of discontent without being accused of being essentially separatists or terrorists."

Dude, I am not here to win an argument. You are coming up with a series of allegations upon which you form your opinion, but you don’t provide any report, article, or anything that fosters this opinion.

But then you criticize sources linked by other while claiming you are right.

If you are not able to provide even a glimpse of evidence of what you say, I end this discussion.

There is even a study investigating the Flix pricing.

• Fares of long-distance bus service are determined by a profit-maximizing strategy known as revenue management…
• At each point in time fares follow an increasing stepwise distribution in the number of sold seats (capacity effect).
• The increasing trend of the lowest available fare during the booking period is mainly driven by the capacity effect.
• The decreasing option value of seats is in place during the last week before departure (temporal effect).

We see such pricing methods everywhere, especially in transportation. But it has nothing to do with the type of payment but the time. You’d pay the higher price later even if you paid digital, there is no cash penalty.

I don’t know of such price hikes. But if you choose to pay online now or in cash at a later point (supposedly immediately before departure) you may pay more. But this usually hasn’t to do with the type of payment (digital or cash) but rather because you pay later at the time of departure or shortly before.

It’s basically the kind of revenue management you see in airline ticketing: the sooner you buy, the lower the price. But it is not a ‘penalty’ for using cash.

I really never heard about such stories.

Are there at least some links where you can compare prices?

Where do you pay 4 times more in cash as compared to digital payments? I have never seen this nor other stories in you text as others have already said.

Is there a source for these allegations?

Yes, according the the NGO Freedom House, a quarter of the world’s governments (48 states) are using tactics of transnational repression, but 10 are responsible for nearly 80 percent of all physical, direct incidents between 2014 and 2024.

The Chinese government remains the most prolific perpetrator, committing 272 incidents, or 22 percent, of recorded cases. The governments of Russia, Turkey, and Egypt are also leading offenders. Authorities in Tajikistan and Cambodia have received less attention despite being major perpetrators of transnational repression against targets in Europe and Asia.

Chinese Communist Party: Knows it’s far ahead.

Modi is hugging also Putin, another war criminal, not sure if this has anything to do specifically with Israel’s popularity in the country.

They certainly (hopefully) also have an in-house control, but I guess what is meant here is the need for an external independent body to better protect consumers (which would imply transparent supply chains).

Modi has been hugging also Putin when they met in the last two years. Seems he should rethink his friendships …