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A crisis is the best time to spend a ton of money.

Fascinating. If they succeed, then China will advance into a high tech economy full of computer programmers and electrical engineers, and AI Computer Scientists.

They want to build out the future digital city, so their citizen can live and interact in it.

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> They want to build out the future digital city, so their citizen can live and interact in it.

When they started Golden Shield Project they built it for monitor and surveillance iirc.

Forgive me if I'm skeptical of your view.

I do welcome more competitions between companies/countries which will hopefully lead to consumers enjoying the benefits.

Well, if you want to take that angle, then are you aware that you’re already being actively monitored by the Patriot Act, and the NSA, and a host of other unknown government programs out there? Are you complaining about these, or out there protesting against them?

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