Fox News crew hit with a $40 parking fine while filming a segment about China’s all-seeing surveillance state.
Bret Baier’s Fox News crew was busted by Beijing’s cameras for illegal parking during Donald Trump’s state visit—and locals filmed the team blocking traffic too.from the Chinese capital on Wednesday at the start of a three-day trip by Trump for talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, 72—the first visit by a U.S. president to China since Trump himself visited in 2017.
The Fox host used the broadcast to focus on the country’s sprawling network of surveillance cameras, before revealing that his own driver had been zapped by a surveillance camera moments after a brief illegal stop. Bret Baier points out that, in China, you're always being monitored, explaining how his crew received a text message informing them they'd been given a ticket within minutes of parking illegally.
“In fact, our driver parked illegally for two minutes, and he got a message on his phone that he got a ticket for about 40 bucks U.S because they saw it on the camera,” Baier said. He opened the segment by warning viewers about the all-seeing surveillance net, claiming he could count at least 20 cameras on a single corner outside Beijing’s Haidian Station.
“Big Brother is watching. There are literally cameras everywhere in Beijing,” he said.
“In fact, in Beijing, they have added 1,500 cameras just this year alone. They see everything. There is nobody jaywalking here because they could get a ticket right away. ”But while the Fox veteran was grumbling about his crew’s brush with Chinese law enforcement, Beijing residents were turning their own cameras on his team.
Footage uploaded to Douyin—China’s version of TikTok—and shared on X by Chinese journalist Li Jingjing of CGTN, the English-language news channel of state-run China Global Television Network, showed the Fox crew“While Fox News is complaining they got a ticket for illegal parking ... this is what his team is doing,” Jingjing wrote alongside the clip, which drew more than 1 million views and prompted online mockery over the irony of the anchor’s surveillance lecture. The anchor’s segment leaned on the eye-popping scale of China’s monitoring apparatus—bolstered by a December report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute , which estimated that The study found that Beijing is rapidly bolting AI-driven face-scanning and movement-tracking tools onto its existing surveillance network.
Documents from a Shanghai district cited in the ASPI report describe plans to allow AI-powered cameras and drones to “automatically discover and intelligently enforce the law. ”“Now, there are real questions with the CCP’s goal is about citizen tracking and social scoring,” he said.
“They say it’s to make everybody feel safe. These cameras are watching every minute. They’re everywhere. ”
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