22 February 2022 Geoffrey Cain is an award-winning foreign correspondent, author, technologist, and scholar of East and Central Asia. His first book, Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech, from a decade...
Author tells panel what’s happened in Xinjiang amounts to ‘mass psychological torture.’ By Roseanne Gerin and Alim Seytoff Radio Free Asia Published November 17, 2021 Schoolchildren walk below surveillance cameras in Akto county, south of Kashgar, in northwestern...
Cain talks to technology insiders and uses published accounts to detail exactly how this draconian system has developed. Beijing’s totalitarian repression brings Orwell’s ‘1984’ to life By Ron Gluckman Nikkei Asia October 29, 2021 (Nikkei...
September 16, 2021 The Uyghurs’ real-life dystopia in Xinjiang offers a glimpse of a political and technological future George Orwell could only imagine. Show notes It’s got the Big Brother and Newspeak of 1984, the predictive policing of Minority Report, the...
“Every person in Xinjiang is documented down to their genetic makeup, the sound of their voice, and whether they enter their homes through the front door or the back.” By Sebastian Strangio The Diplomat August 24, 2021 Credit: AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein In “The...
On 6 February 2021, the full story of what is happening to minorities in Xinjiang was briefly available to a small number of people in China. By Robert Templer Mekong Review August 2021 Illustration: Gianluca Costantini On 6 February 2021, the full story of what is...
