Yeah, it's creepy. There's almost no secure place in the world at this point.

I'll tell you more, the UK is one of the leading countries in cameras per capita, either installed or accessible by the authorities (not sure about exact details). They built government surveillance without any communism in sight.

(Leaving alone that China's state capitalism is the opposite of communism.)

But is the technology developed by the state or are they contracting it out to a private company?