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2023-01-24 00:45:58 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: EB5DDAF1437A570E894B0D2BC11D8A09365A35093570A5499C07B3469ECD0A55
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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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