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The Institutional Infrastructure of the Digital Silk Road and Cross-Border Repression : The mass surveillance ecosystem built by Beijing in East Turkestan with laboratory precision is transcending domestic borders, evolving into a global project for digital hegemony. The Beijing administration has declared the infrastructure in East Turkestan to be a …

For years, East Turkestan (Xinjiang) has served as a massive “digital authoritarianism laboratory” where the Beijing administration pioneered and fine-tuned its most advanced AI-backed surveillance systems, biometric databases, and predictive policing algorithms. However, recent field data and official documents demonstrate that the dark ecosystem matured in this laboratory has ceased …

Until now, international media and public opinion have mostly focused on the visible tip of the iceberg: Hikvision cameras monitoring street corners, Dahua systems encircling urban areas, police checkpoints at every intersection, and AI-powered facial recognition technologies. Yet, all these technological devices are merely the “tentacles” of the repressive ecosystem—the …