"Imagine a world where many of your daily activities are constantly monitored and evaluated: what you buy at the shops and online; where you are at any given time; who your friends are and how you interact with them; how many hours you spend watching content or playing video games; and what bills and taxes you pay... Most of that already happens...but now imagine a system where all these behaviours are rated as either 'positive' or 'negative' and distilled into a single number, according to rules set by the government. That would create your 'Citizen Score'...and used to determine your eligibility for a mortgage or a job, where your children can go to school, etc..."

"For now, participating in China's 'Citizen Score' system is voluntary. But by 2020 it will be mandatory. The behaviour of every single citizen and 'legal entity' in China will be rated and ranked, whether they like it or not... The government [is now using] private companies to come up with systems and algorithms for social credit scores... It will result in private platforms acting essentially as spy agencies for the government..." [Just like Google, Amazon, and Facebook. --ed]

"Sharing what Sesame Credit refers to as 'positive energy' online, [such as] nice messages about the government or how well the country's economy is doing, will make your score go up... A person's own score will also be affected by what their online friends say and do, beyond their own contact with them. If someone they are connected to online posts a negative comment, their own score will also be dragged down... Higher scores have already become a 'status symbol', with almost 100,000 people bragging [on social media] about their scores..."

"Sesame Credit is basically a big data, 'gamified' version of the Communist Party's surveillance methods... The regime kept a dossier on every individual that tracked political and personal transgressions [which] followed them for life, from schools to jobs. People started reporting on friends and even family members... It is a method of social control dressed up in some points-reward system. It's gamified obedience... Penalties are set to change dramatically when the government system becomes mandatory in 2020..."

"[In the USA], we already live in a world of [pervasive data collection and] predictive algorithms that determine if we are a threat, a risk, a good citizen and even if we are trustworthy. We're getting closer to the Chinese system - the expansion of credit scoring into life scoring - even if we don't realize it... We are entering an age where an individual's actions will be judged by standards they can't control and where that judgement can't be erased. The consequences are not only troubling; they're permanent."

-- Rachel Botsman article, Wired magazine

For decades, China has been a crucial component of the so-called "liberal world order" promoted by the likes of David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, George Soros and their fellow globalists at the CFR, Brookings, Aspen, Davos, etc. Remember the brutal Chinese suppression of the student movement in 1989? President George H.W. Bush, former CFR director, first U.S. Ambassdor to the "People's Republic" of China, and promoter of the "new world order" offered only token support for the liberal protestors.

Now the iron fist is back in the velvet glove, and the grand "social experiment" under the Chinese socialist dictatorshp continues according to plan. See our previous comments on the recent U.N. "Smart Cities" conference hosted by China. Forward, comrades! And don't forget to "like" us on Facebook. *

"Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded, not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering a high morale and community purpose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history.”

-- David Rockefeller, CFR chairman, article in the New York Times, 1973-08-10

When CFR godfather David Rockefeller made those remarks, the "cultural revolution" in China was still in progress. That disastrous program killed over 1.5 million Chinese citizens, including vast numbers of "intellectuals" who opposed the collectivist dictatorship. Evidently, "whatever the "price" in terms of the death and suffering of others is acceptable, if it advances the Rockefeller / CFR / U.N. one world program towards its objective.

"Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure -- one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."

-- David Rockefeller, "Memoirs", 2002

* Facebook and Google are CFR corporate sponsors. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Google chairman Eric Schmidt are CFR members. Sandberg, a protege of CFR member and future Harvard president Larry Summers, was his assistant at the World Bank and the Treasury Dept. She was then an executive at Google before moving to Facebook, and is now a billionaire thanks to her stock options.

UPDATE: The BBC recently produced this short video exploring the latest in Chinese video surveillance technology, currently being rolled out as part of the "Smart City" initiative.