China controls Xinjiang through omnipresent fear of internment rather than surveillance technology

Evidence

But in a Xinjiang ruled by China, such places do not exist. Where Orwell’s dystopian 1984 situated the telescreen as the “fantastic technology of control,” modern China uses fear of internment and the circuit of horrors that surround it as that all-enveloping telescreen. In Orwell’s fictional world, “Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull”; for Abdulla and other Uyghur Muslims, that is reality. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 578

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the reader’s prior reading on how regimes use anticipated punishment to govern — e.g., Horkheimer on fascism requiring permanent population control through terror.
• BMF: The all-enveloping telescreen of fear — in which nothing is yours except inside your skull but even that space is colonized — echoes the thought-policed mental interiority in Zamyatin’s We, where the imagination itself is the last crime.