In addition to monitoring individual behaviour, Ms Hoffman noted the Civil Aviation Administration of China used trial"Civil Aviation Industry Credit Measures" — what appears to be a credit score for aviation companies — to force airlines to comply with political demands.— including Qantas — demanding their international websites be changed to show Taiwan as a part of the People's Republic of China.
Ms Hoffman said an 18-digit Chinese business registration number assigned to companies operating in China also made it easier to share information between various government offices. "I don't think that it will ever be a fully centralised system, each [local] government will have a slightly different version," she said.
Hong Kong was handed back to China with no framework for what would happen after the year 2047, leaving the city to carve an identity out of two ideologically opposed empires.
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