Once upon a time this would have been the cue for the inevitable racial joke ...
Did they arrest the Wong man?
Anyway... so we know facial recognition is now a significant technology for social control. Add that to the 'social credit score' system the Chinese gov is implementing, and that's pretty scary.
Then add functioning AI, of the kind already rolled out by google, facebook, twitter, reddit, etc for real-time suppression of public discussion and awareness of concepts contrary to the official narrative.
We really are at a historical crux.