France 24: Soros calls China's Xi 'most dangerous' foe of free societies
Billionaire investor George Soros on Thursday said Chinese President Xi Jinping was "the most dangerous enemy" of free societies for presiding over a high-tech surveillance regime.
"China is not the only authoritarian regime in the world but it is the wealthiest, strongest and technologically most advanced," he said, noting concerns too about Vladimir Putin's Russia.
"This makes Xi Jinping the most dangerous opponent of open societies," Soros told a dinner audience on the margins of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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WNU Editor: George Soros is right. The rise of the surveillance state in China, and its use of technology to monitor and shape civilian behaviour, is one of the most under-reported stories in the main stream media today. In my opinion China will soon be the world's first "digital dictatorship", and it will be a model that other dictatorships and authoritarian regimes will want to emulate. This ABC News Online analysis is one of the best that I have read so far on what is happening in China .... Leave no dark corner (ABC News Online).
