Yinfi: Britain is locked in a bitter argument over "two-tier policing" – the claim that its police now move faster against identity than against actual crime. I spent nearly three decades in China before moving to the UK, and I recognised the pattern. My argument is that Britain hasn't copied China. Two opposite ideologies — Beijing's story of national rejuvenation and the West's equity-driven overcorrection for past racism — quietly install the same incentive, and that incentive produces the same reflex: a state that polices whatever threatens it rather than whatever happened to the victim, sorting citizens by category instead of judging the act.
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