Human Rights Watch head says China is a ‘surveillance state’ using its economic clout to stifle international criticism
The head of Human Rights Watch has accused the Chinese government of not only constructing “an Orwellian high-tech surveillance state” at home but using its growing economic clout to silence critics abroad.
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