Xinjiang is a police state
- https://theintercept.com/2021/01/29/china-uyghur-muslim-surveillance-police/
- https://www.noemamag.com/the-xinjiang-data-police/
In 2018, the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region spent close to $100 million on policing equipment such as scanning tools. Although this is just a small proportion of the nearly $10 billion information and security technology industry in the region, it is one of the most crucial aspects of the reeducation camp system. Because the army of police contractors actively profile the people they target with scans, they make sure that the majority of the Kazakhs and Uighurs in the region are assessed.