China is testing its state surveillance model in the Pacific

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China's police presence in the Solomon Islands has set off alarms in the Pacific after Chinese agents attempted to introduce into a local community a neighborhood surveillance system inspired by an old Maoist method of social control, according to a long report by Nytimes. The episode occurred in Fighter One, a village on the outskirts of Honiara, the country's capital. The community had asked for help in dealing with security problems linked to…