the pandemic has only advanced these ambitions. joining us as jennifer sou research fellow at the louis institute in sydney, welcome to the program jennifer. according to one study, china has 18 out of 20 of the most surveilled cities in the world. but from the report we just saw, it looks as if many chinese residents are okay with this. i think china is an authoritarian state. i believe that there is much option or opportunities for citizens to view dissatisfaction or that disagreement with the increasingly so cameras, surveillance technology in the cities. unlike elsewhere, i think china is the approach to survey loans in the a purchase. my city's is driven by the state, the central states, so it's very top down. and the opinions and voices of the citizens are often neglected in the usual state policies. yet super hard to get a sense. you can't exactly run polls, but are there some people who view it as living in a modern smart city as opposed to living in a surveillance city? do we have a sense? oh, i think. yeah, i think let me answered in this way. i think post panoramic post curre

jennifer sou, thank you so much for joining us. japan. it is facing a serious conundrum. it has thanks so much money into the olympics. officially. $15400000000.00 us dollars. and if tokyo cancels the games, the country stands to lose an estimated 16500000000. so organizers are low to stop the games, but citizens see a public health danger if the event moves forward and majority do not want it to happen, especially because most of the country remains unvaccinated. all these spirits, the australian olympic softball team, is the 1st international squad to arrive in japan and that they think unprecedented restrictions, restaurants, know, sightseeing, certainly, no socializing. i think that these athletes as well, neither do i have to take responsibility for their own behaviors. well, they're committed to do that. they committed to look after themselves, but do the right thing by the japanese population as well, and be ready for the game. so most people in japan did not want the olympic games to happen. that questioning of the sense of 15000 olympic and paralympic athletes fo