As a counterpoint to the rabid pro-China propaganda that is CGTN, I sometimes watch videos from the rabidly anti-China Youtube channel China Observer. I don't know which country it comes out of, but it does make some pretty detailed critiques of everything happening in China.
This recent one, about a famous pianist who has (like many, many other famous folk) suddenly dramatically fallen out of favour with the government, highlights a "citizens police" force (well, a bunch of older people, it seems, more than happy to make money by being State informants) which put me very much in mind of the 1984 Anti-Sex League - a concept which, in the book and movie, I found inadvertently funny.
But in China, it seems that something close to it is becoming a reality:
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