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2023-01-23 19:26:20 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 49BF18B9E9F151774AC1F839011F4B79DB5DB7A2BAB7AD0DAE752624D49E3B76
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The law that requires knives to be chained and in some cases even QR coded is only present in the northwest Xinjiang region of China. It is not a country wide requirement. https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2017/10/xinjiang-household-knives-must-ided/?amp The law is being used to primarily track the Uyghur population in the region along with other tactics. https://theintercept.com/2021/01/29/china-uyghur-muslim-surveillance-police/
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