one of the important new t thins this document also tells us is how labor-intensive beieijing's detective work againinst the uighurs is, not only relying on an intense surveillance apparatus, but also over 1000 chinese officials living, eating, sleeping, talking with these families. brent: i hear you talking this way, it reminds me of what we heard about from the east german secret police, the stasi, in its official -- and its official associates, who basically kept tabs on people. is that what's going on there in that region of china? adririan: it is. but supercharged. fifirstly, with the latest technology, terabytes of databases compared with the paper files of the stasi. secondly, labor-intensive. the e stasi had one of the most detailed, largest security apparatuses, but xinjijiang is absolutely rivaling that now, not only in the number of security staff and police officers they have put on the streetss and recruited -- which we have published about previously -- but t the n numbef regular government contractors they are roping into spy on uighurs, having them talk to them, having man