Is China Exporting its State Surveillance Technology to the UAE?

Since its unveiling in 2014, commentators in the West have portrayed China’s social credit system as a visitation from the dystopian future where all our thoughts and behaviours are monitored, scored and logged by an enormous superstate. However, the reality is more complicated, incorporating a deluge of various private and public enterprises that can do anything from providing a credit score for future loans to allowing the possibility of seeing a potential partners financial situation thr