Xi Jinping builds a 21st-century police state
A draft law gives rank-and-file officers new, arbitrary powers
UNDER XI JINPING, the Communist Party is building the most ambitious police state in China’s history, with the legal powers and surveillance tools to bring order and ideological conformity to every corner of daily life.
This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “Xi Jinping builds a police state”
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