COVID Controls Offer Insight Into China's Surveillance Network

WASHINGTON - For many outside China, this was the year that the term 'surveillance state' became something they understood.

Western media reported in April on what were thought to be government-operated drones whirring through a locked-down Shanghai, China's most populous city, where authorities reported a record 22,000 new cases of COVID-19 on a single day. In an unverified viral video, one drone trumpeted, 'Con