Bret Baier and his crew, while in Beijing during President Donald Trump\u2019s visit, described China\u2019s surveillance as pervasive-Baier claimed ther are cameras at nearly every corner and that their driver received a ticket via phone after parking illegally for two minutes.He also raised concerns that the Chinese communist party uses such systems for citizen tracking and \u201csocial scoring.\u201d<\/p>\n

A state-media reporter disputed Baier\u2019s framing, saying the real issue was that Baier\u2019s team was filming in the middle of heavy traffic, which Beijing residents had criticized and posted online.<\/p>\n

The article than argues that China\u2019s social credit system<\/a> can restrict freedoms or access based on compliance, comparing it to dystopian control found in Orwell\u2019s *1984* and linking it to broader worries about global surveillance<\/a>. It cites commentary suggesting modern surveillance technologies<\/a> could make authoritarian, world-scale governance more plausible, and references tech figures who warn that fear paired with technology can enable such an outcome. <\/p>\n