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Digital surveillance grids are meant to help solve local problems quickly. But they also track potential troublemakers

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

The Communist Party is in a quandary

What, for example, is behind Xi Jinping’s sweeping military purge?

Foreign concerns about a deluge of Chinese goods fall on deaf ears in Beijing