In the 20 years between The Lives of Others being in cinemas and the new stage adaptation, its story of state surveillance and control in East Germany has become uncomfortably resonant for the West, says Will Adie.

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Why do the ruling classes in China appear so paranoid, asks John MacNab. Surveillance is everywhere, yet Communist Party officials seem to live in a permanent state of paranoia and oversensitivity to perceived slights.

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