Yes, and prison camps and other structures, changes in landscape over time, and so on. I’m sure if you really think hard you’ll come up with all sorts of ways to get information out of a country when you don’t trust the numbers the government there is giving, especially if you think in terms of having lots of resources. Check out how people in North Korea get access to the unfiltered internet and western media, for example; similar techniques are used to exfiltrate data to piece together the whole picture.
The OP claimed China has a competitive edge from prison labour. I disproved that statement.
Not really. Because China’a numbers are demonstrably false. It’s the good old “you can’t prove it’s happening if we just don’t count them” logic.
You can disprove China’s numbers… How, exactly?
Satellites help.
Satellites to… See people?
Yes, and prison camps and other structures, changes in landscape over time, and so on. I’m sure if you really think hard you’ll come up with all sorts of ways to get information out of a country when you don’t trust the numbers the government there is giving, especially if you think in terms of having lots of resources. Check out how people in North Korea get access to the unfiltered internet and western media, for example; similar techniques are used to exfiltrate data to piece together the whole picture.
What granularity do you think satellites shoot at?
https://journals.law.harvard.edu/hrj/2023/11/privacy-and-veracity-implications-of-the-use-of-satellite-imagery-from-private-companies-as-evidence-in-human-rights-investigations/
An opinion piece with no quantitative analysis? Nice.