They're unfortunately not the only ones who've in recent years have expanded on these types of behavior. Australia has been doing similar things too. COVID was a huge help in furthering totalitarianism ideals all across the globe, with many countries pushing to see how much they could get away with, in spying their own people, agglomerating power for themselves to stay in power longer, silencing the opposition, the press and the people, utilizing social media to gather data on their own people...