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
Author tells panel what’s happened in Xinjiang amounts to ‘mass psychological torture.’ By Roseanne Gerin and Alim SeytoffRadio Free AsiaPublished November 17, 2021 Members
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
Streamed July 11, 2021 China’s restriction on the free flow of information is no secret in the western world. Many are aware of the “Great
New book details how Beijing adopted, integrated and applied technologies to suppress its Uighur minority in Xinjiang By Andrew SalmonAsia TimesJune 29, 2021 Merge the
Cain delineates two narratives that gradually intertwine: One is China’s drive for technological dominance. The other is China’s fumbling effort to define and defeat an
Cain accuses the Chinese government of creating “the world’s most sophisticated surveillance dystopia” in the Xinjiang province, where an estimated 1.8 million Uighurs, Kazakhs, and
The Korean giant pumped billions of dollars into China and came to dominate its smartphone market. Now, it’s closing factories. What happened? By Geoffrey CainThe
SEOUL, South Korea — For many North Korean defectors, the escape to freedom in the South is, sadly, the start of another lifelong struggle.
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USA TODAY
Mar 26, 2015
SEOUL, South Korea — Is the sun setting on the brotherly bond between North Korea and its biggest patron, China?
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Feb 10, 2015
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Geoffrey Cain on Investigative Journalism, Authoritarian Power, and The Perfect Police State | In a wide-ranging conversation with Jennifer Grossman, CEO of The Atlas Society, investigative journalist Geoffrey Cain reflects on years spent reporting inside some of the world’s most restrictive regimes — and on the research behind his book The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future.
For years, Tim Cook insisted Apple could change China from the inside. Instead, China changed Apple.
The latest evidence? Apple spent billions developing cutting-edge electric vehicle battery technology with Chinese automaker BYD, only to watch its innovations become the cornerstone of BYD’s rise to global electric vehicle dominance. Apple walked away with nothing. China walked away with everything.
This isn’t just another story about corporate research and development gone wrong. It’s a cautionary tale about how even America’s most valuable company has become trapped in China’s web of technological control — and how that web is about to tighten even further.