This article is about China's desire to fully mechanize and wire up their army by 2027. But I find this really interesting:
For example [in regard to "societal stability" concerns], there is continued emphasis on urbanization, while reducing the divide between urban and rural development. This suggests the Chinese leadership sees the growing disparities between the countryside and the cities as a major source of concern.
The Chinese Communist Party rose to power based on rural support. I'm sure the CCP is particularly sensitive to preempting threats from that portion of the country by reducing the size of that environment.
I was pretty prescient with the idea of wiring up the cities for surveillance, as I noted further down in this post, eh?
UPDATE: And to be clear, it really didn't take a lot of prescience to predict China's obsessive need to control every damn thing about the lives of anyone they think might be a threat to CCP control--which is everyone everywhere on the planet the way things look now.
