La Chine et ses idéologies

Just look around in China and you will notice, one or two - or more - cameras that are constantly watching you. In recent years, China has even wanted to rate its citizens through these sophisticated and highly developed video surveillance systems. This is reminiscent of George Orwell's dystopia depicted in his 1984 novel; "Big Brother is watching you". Indeed, each camera hides an intelligent system capable of recognizing faces in order to re-count the population's actions. Nonetheless, the "social credit" system set up by the Chinese government does not stop at public appearances, it also collects information on companies, compliance with traffic regulations, and even on social networks. Although this scoring system may appear useful in some situations, such as the arrest of criminals, the underwater part of the iceberg remains worrying. Citizens with a too low score would then be denied the right to apply for certain jobs, enroll their children in certain schools or even take public transport. If you walk around a little longer, you will also notice here and there propaganda posters celebrating the 70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China, which are spreading into schools. Indeed, you can find on the walls of classrooms, from kindergarten to high school, slogans of the regime. Propaganda is therefore omnipresent in schools, and schools are ubiquitous in children's lives. Moreover, school pressure is extremely high in China, pushing some parents to leave their children in boarding school from a very early age. Telephones are kept by the school, waking hours are set, girls and boys wear uniforms, sports are imposed and their sense of belonging to the school is implicitly developed, to say nothing of their sense of belonging to the country… There are some 130 million communist youths in China, 140 million citizens belonging to the party. Yet, these Chinese parents are also deprived of a fundamental freedom. Designed to avoid overcrowding in the country, the one-child policy is not only manifested by the criminalization of parents of more than one child, but also by abortions and forced sterilizations. Flexible for peasant families in the 1980s, it introduced in 2013 a new exception for couples where one of the members is himself an only child, then is replaced in 2015 by a policy setting the maximum number of children per family at two. Unfortunately, the Malthusianism and the mass surveillance that has been stated are only a tiny part of what the regime is for the Chinese. It is difficult from an external point of view to understand what the country is like for them, we who come from a society in which individualism is promoted rather than community, with a culture, and history significantly different.

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