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 montage/Source photos...

September 16, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSAdx9vST28 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...

“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...

This is a nightmarish account of brutality and mass surveillance under Chinese rule. By Edward Lucas July 24, 2021 Police take Uighur Muslims to “re-education camps”. The province of Xinjiang has been used to test oppressive surveillance technology...

July 22, 2021 Moderated by Taylor Owen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1mrf7CdcnI In this episode of Big Tech, Taylor Owen speaks with Geoffrey Cain, author of The Perfect Police State, about the technology enabled in China’s Xinjiang region to oppress its Uighur...

July 22, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1mrf7CdcnI&list=PLRnfpAiVwGCewZSK4M1LTIcRyWPfo3JAS&index=23

Streamed July 16, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6rL0k49kZI Geoffrey Cain, an award-winning foreign correspondent and National Press Club member, discusses his new book, “The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance...

In The Perfect Police State the journalist Geoffrey Cain shows how Xinjiang, China’s remote northwest region, became ‘the world’s most sophisticated surveillance dystopia’. He traces the authorities’ development of new technologies to monitor and control Muslim and...

Streamed July 11, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ml464ikb6I China’s restriction on the free flow of information is no secret in the western world. Many are aware of the “Great Firewall,” as well as the intense surveillance of visitors and Chinese citizens. But...