[https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/08/china/china-party-private-life-youth-mic-intl-hnk/index.html](https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/08/china/china-party-private-life-youth-mic-intl-hnk/index.html) >"Even for a powerful authoritarian state, the speed and extent to which the Communist Party is expanding its reach into private lives in China has caught many off guard."