האם שיטת ה"אשראי החברתי" של המשטר הסיני עשויה להתפשט במערב באמצעות תעודות זהות דיגיטליות? | דעה

Could China's social credit system see a global rollout in the form of digital IDs? Why is the World Health Organization pushing for a pathogen access and benefit sharing system? And what could that mean for lab leaks and bioweapons on a global scale? Joining us now to unpack all of this is Reggie Littlejohn. She's the founder of Antiglobalist International and co-founder of the Sovereignty Coalition. Reggie Littlejohn, thank you so much for joining us. Great to have you back on the show. Thank you so much for having me. It's a pleasure to be back. Now, there's been a growing trend, if you will, of different governments either talking or wanting to implement digital IDs. We saw inklings of this during the pandemic, but the U.K. was really taking off the headlines recently with the Cut the FAF campaign to have just nationwide digital IDs. Talk to us about the global spread of this, if you will, because there's a lot of attention on China and the social credit system, where supporters are like, this makes life so easy, so convenient. But if you somehow find yourself on the wrong side of the party, there's a lot of stories of people suddenly they can't get on certain trains, they can't get to certain hotels, they can't get their bank accounts. What are the security concerns if this does go global? Well, Tiffany, as you know, my original mission had to do with stopping forced abortion in China. And I've been looking at this Chinese human rights violation for decades. And so when COVID hit, what I saw was a Chinese-style social credit system possibly being implemented worldwide through the World Health Organization, because what they wanted, they were terrifying everybody concerning COVID and wanted to do what they call a vaccine passport, which was like the original name for what has now become just a health ID or even just a digital ID. And in 2023, they partnered with the EU to roll out international, interoperable digital IDs. And these IDs, I think you can see really what the vision behind them is. From the World Economic Forum, they ran an article and it was 2021, right in the beginning of COVID, about what digital IDs to do. So according to the World Economic Forum, you will need them to open a bank account, to access health care, to travel, to participate in social media, to even own a communications device like a laptop or a cell phone. And in China, what that means is you follow all the rules. You never criticize the government online. You never jaywalk, et cetera, et cetera. If you do all of that, then you can lead what looks like a normal life. But if you, God forbid, criticize the government, then the punishments come in. So for example, you can lose your job. Your kid might not be able to go to the best school. You won't be able to borrow money to buy a home or start a business. If you keep it up, you can be scoured from your credit cards and your bank accounts, like what happened to the Canadian truckers. So people think that this can't happen in the West. It already did. And then finally, in China, if you keep it up, you will just disappear. And we have the infrastructure to do that in the West. And they are very heavily ruling out these digital IDs. And in the wrong hands, they can be used as tools of mass surveillance and totalitarian control, similar to the China social credit system.