While diplomats negotiated and envoys shuttled, conditions in Gaza continued to deteriorate. The gap between what was being discussed at the diplomatic level and what was happening on the ground was not a failure of information. It was a failure of will.
States have always kept their citizens under surveillance. What is new is the scale, the precision and the export of the technology. China’s surveillance infrastructure is being adopted across the Global South. Authoritarian governance is going global, one camera at a time.
