In The Media
RFA: In China, AI cameras alert police when a banner is unfurled
The surveillance technology is just one example of the proliferation of ‘predictive policing’ in the country. By RFA Investigative and Gulchehra Hoja for RFA Uyghur June 5, 2023 People gather at the Dahua Technology booth during the China Public Security Expo in...
National Security Institute: Surveillance State: China’s Digital Tools of Repression
https://youtu.be/yw-VDWBf2-c As part of NSI’s ongoing series, “A Spotlight on China’s Global Repression,” we are excited to host a discussion examining how China uses digital tools, such as social media platforms like WeChat and TikTok and its social credit system, to...
Foundation for American Innovation: REBOOT 2022: The Geopolitics of Industrial Policy: All Carrot, No Stick?
Panelists: Geoffrey Cain, Nonresident Senior Fellow at Lincoln Network, Author and Journalist Dustin Carmack, Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation Julius Krein, Founder and Editor at American Affairs Moderator: Roslyn Layton, Researcher at Aalborg University,...
TikTok, you are technically correct, the worst kind of correct
TikTok dodges the hard questions about its China connections By Mike Wacker The Burner Files October 11, 2022 The following is a guest post from Mike Wacker, a software engineer and technologist who has served as a TechCongress fellow in the House of Representatives....
CBS News: Candidates recognize the power of TikTok, “for better or worse”
CBS News September 30, 2022 Wade Herring didn't know the teenage voter who approached him at a restaurant over the weekend. But she knew Herring, a Democrat running for Congress in Georgia, from his campaign videos on TikTok. To Herring, a 63-year-old Savannah...
The Epoch Times: TikTok Is ‘Everything That You Do Not Want in a Modern Democracy’: Tech Expert
By Andrew Thornebrooke and Jan Jekielek 9/30/2022 Social media giant TikTok and its nebulous connections to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) present a threat to U.S. national security, according to one expert. Geoffrey Cain, an independent...
Art News: Samsung Saga: The Donation of Lee Kun-hee’s Multibillion-Dollar Art Collection Has Sparked an Ongoing Debate in South Korea Over How to Show It
By Andrew Russeth September 28, 2022 The Lee Kun-hee Collection Museum is tentatively slated to be built on an empty lot in northern Seoul.COURTESY MINISTRY OF CULTURE, SPORTS AND TOURISM OF SOUTH KOREA For most of the past six hundred years, Korea’s leaders have...
RFA: Driverless police surveillance cars hit streets of Xinjiang’s Karamay
Critics say the cars represent another threat to the rights of Uyghurs in the region, experts say. By Gulchehra Hoja RFA Uyghur July 14, 2022 Municipal police roll out driverless police patrol cars to monitor shopping centers, tourist spots and some residential...
Asia Experts Forum Geoffrey Cain on “Samsung Rising”
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...
Radio Free Asia: China’s persecution of Uyghurs is preview of wider surveillance scheme, lawmakers say
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...