China’s tech future depends on children and surveillance By Giacomo Lee 30 Jul 2021 (Last Updated July 29th, 2021 11:19) A bountiful tech industry means the children of China face a prosperous future. The same tech is watching them, and ever evolving, as Giacomo Lee discovers. HANGZHOU, ZHEJIANG – AUGUST 01: A camera records the activites in a classroom at the West Point Training Center August 1, 2006 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province of China. The center, named after the West Point Military Academy in the United States, attracts parents to enroll their son?s because of its strict disciplinary tactics. There are a set of fixed rules for punishment at the training center including eating undiluted chili sauce if they use obscene language, or the most serious punishment is to be whipped three times on the back for cheating and unsatisfactory academic performances. (Photo by Cancan Chu/Getty Images)