{"id":220972,"date":"2020-11-26T07:50:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T07:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=220972"},"modified":"2020-11-28T07:54:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T07:54:12","slug":"china-wants-passenger-tracking-system-for-global-travel-coronavirus-reset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=220972","title":{"rendered":"China Wants Passenger Tracking System for Global Travel Coronavirus Reset"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Simon Kent \u2013 Breibart Nov 23, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Chinese Communist President Xi Jinping wants travelers to adopt a global QR code system to help determine their health status and travel \u201cpermissions\u201d in a post-coronavirus pandemic travel reset.<\/p>\n<p>During the virtual G20 summit on Saturday, Xi called for a coronavirus \u201cglobal mechanism\u201d which involves international recognition of health certificates in the form of QR codes to allow people to travel freely, according to state media.<\/p>\n<p>The dictator says the system can be based on \u201cnucleic acid testing results in the form of internationally accepted QR codes,\u201d reported state news agency\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/2020-11\/21\/c_1126770310.htm\">Xinhua<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to further harmonise policies and standards and establish \u2018fast tracks\u2019 to facilitate the orderly flow of people,\u201d he is quoted saying. \u201c[We] hope more countries would participate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>QR codes are bar codes that can be read by mobile phones that are a common tool of tracking and control in Communist China.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">China launched its notorious social credit system last year to watch over its own citizens and mete out punishment based on personal behavior and loyalty to the Communist Party. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XCe447GupS\">https:\/\/t.co\/XCe447GupS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1257672936368070656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Under the scheme China has employed since February, users are issued a traffic-light style health code, with a green code allowing someone to travel freely, and an orange or red code indicating that they need to quarantine for up to two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The codes are based on a combination of big data and information submitted by the users themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The leader of the Chinese Communist Party did not explain how the international scheme might work or if it would mirror the health code system which has been widely adopted in China.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of detailed information has already been flagged by critics who see it is a piece of social engineeering.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet, the executive director of Human Rights Watch Kenneth Roth expressed caution over Xi\u2019s proposal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn initial focus on health could easily become a Trojan Horse for broader political monitoring and exclusion,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Beware of the Chinese government&#39;s proposal for a global QR code system. An initial focus on health could easily become a Trojan Horse for broader political monitoring and exclusion, akin to the dangers associated with China&#39;s social-credit system. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rKfmCZQ376\">https:\/\/t.co\/rKfmCZQ376<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KenRoth\/status\/1330696178887954433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>China been building its own mass surveillance network for the past decade, which boasts hundreds of millions of street cameras.<\/p>\n<p>The surveillance network has been billed as the world\u2019s most powerful facial-recognition system and aims to identify any of its 1.4 billion citizens within three seconds.<\/p>\n<p>China is also looking at more digital methods of ensuring its citizens comply with the strictures of the single-party state.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/health\/2020\/11\/23\/china-wants-passenger-tracking-system-for-global-travel-coronavirus-reset\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for the implementation of a digital tracking system that could be used to monitor and control movement globally  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78,52,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-Implants_and_surveillance_technology","category-Surveillance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220973,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220972\/revisions\/220973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}