I mean yeah when you wipe out personal responsibility, religion, and traditional culture and make the totalitarian State the sole arbiter of right and wrong, and you have generations who have grew up in a secular police state (naturally with corrupt local officials), there aren't many options to regulate personal behavior. Either you create a Panopticon that can monitor everyone at all times, or you condition them to behave in other ways.

Honest to God, I thought you were talking about the West right up until you mentioned CHY-na.