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How China Wants to Rate Its Citizens

The New Yorker’s Jiayang Fan examines China’s plans for a comprehensive social credit system, whose alleged resemblance to “Amazon consumer tracking with an Orwellian twist” has attracted considerable and not always sober attention in recent weeks. Fan notes Beijing’s creative use of competing corporate-run pilot programs to refine its own scheme, but compares the project to an ill-fated merit point system at her Deng-era elementary