World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth: The Perfect Police State
July 11, 2021
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
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
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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
Streamed June 29, 2021 Blocked from facts and truth, under constant surveillance, surrounded by a hostile alien police force: Xinjiang’s Uyghur population has become a
Biographies are prominent sights on non-fiction shelves, and many become classics. Business bios? Less so. But a new entry to the genre – Geoffrey Cain’s Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant that Set out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech (Penguin Random House, 2020) – is a corker.
By Andrew Salmon
Asia Times
Mar 20, 2020
Journalist Geoffrey Cain leaves the reader hanging at the end of his book, Samsung Rising, out this week, wondering how Korea’s supreme court will rule on Lee’s retrial on bribery charges.
By Donald Kirk
Forbes
Mar 19, 2020
Geoffrey Cain, a journalist who has reported for The Economist and the Wall Street Journal, does his material proud. Unlike their Silicon Valley counterparts, Asia’s tech champions lack the type of leaders that are sufficiently well known to carry a business biography: no mercurial Steve Jobs or Elon Musk and certainly no college dropouts such as Mark Zuckerberg or Elizabeth Holmes of scandal-ridden Theranos to act as storytelling device.
By Louise Lucas
Financial Times
Mar 19, 2020
The following is an excerpt from Geoffrey Cain’s new book “Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech,” about the South Korean company’s journey from grocery store to tech giant.
By Andie Corban and Kai Ryssdal
Marketplace
Mar 17, 2020
Long before “Parasite” won the Oscar for Best Picture and K-pop groups performed on “The Tonight Show,” South Korea’s best-known export was Samsung, an obscure maker of cheap microwaves that Western expatriates in the country had taken to calling “Sam-suck.” Today, Samsung is a household name, and a bigger smartphone maker than Apple. But its path to the top was strewn with secret deals, price fixing, bribery, tax evasion and more, all of it overseen by an ultrasecretive, ultrarich family ready to use every means at its disposal to stay in command.
By Raymond Zhong
The New York Times
Mar 17, 2020
Samsung Rising is written by Geoffrey Cain, a technology reporter who specializes in Asia-based reporting. The new book is based on interviews with hundreds of people relaying the story of Samsung’s rise and its various (Apple-shaped) challenges along the way.
By Luke Dormehl
Cult of Mac
Mar 9, 2020
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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.