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2023-01-23 18:43:20 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: C559E982739691E2EFE38F13A971AA3B8B28A962694A86631FB41C5B2274E6C4
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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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