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Council on Foreign Relations: There’s A Cop In My Pocket: Policymakers Need to Stop Advocating Surveillance by Default.

August 28, 2023

Encryption is like a baby: It comes with problems, but you wouldn’t solve them with blunt force. There is no safe form of “end-to-half” encryption, no backdoor that serves government authorities without also serving criminals. Yet under the banner of foreign relations, lawmakers continue to advance policies that normalize surveillance by default. These measures turn personal devices into monitoring tools, weakening security for everyone while claiming to strengthen it. Once encryption is compromised, hackers and hostile states gain the same access as police. The result is a quiet dismantling of privacy, civil liberties, and the open internet itself.

Nikkei Asia: Wagner uprising unnerves Russia’s partners across Asia

June 26, 2023

Some leaders left to parse how to prevent challenges to their own power By Steven BorowiecNikkei AsiaJune 26, 2023 SEOUL — This weekend, as

Wired: Volodymyr Zelensky on War, Technology, and the Future of Ukraine

June 22, 2022

In a one-on-one interview with WIRED, the embattled president expresses clarity amidst the chaos. JUN 2, 2022By Geoffrey Cain EVER SINCE RUSSIAN forces started their

Ukraine’s War on Russian Disinformation Is a Lesson for America

March 9, 2020

Forget the Mueller report. Russia is still meddling in democracies everywhere, and Ukraine is trying to fight back.

By Geoffrey Cain
The New Republic

Mar 30, 2019

It looks like Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin are becoming BFFs

February 10, 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

How the Iran nuclear deal matters for North Korea

November 25, 2013

SEOUL, South Korea — Given the tumultuous relations between Washington and Tehran, the nuclear pact announced early Sunday was the most significant diplomatic development between the two since the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Nov 25, 2013

Tour de North Korea

September 27, 2013

SEOUL, South Korea — It’s not every day that 47 Western bikers can ride through the world’s most reclusive state. Yet as part of a race that began in China, athletes zipped through North Korea’s port town of Rajin this week, Reuters reports. Traffic was blocked off, and the cyclists given an unusual stint of freedom to move around the area. (Not that there’s much traffic in North Korea anyway.)

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Sep 27, 2013

Syria’s other key ally: North Korea

September 8, 2013

SEOUL, South Korea — The Obama administration’s push for a military strike against Syria is in full swing, highlighting not only the use of chemical weapons but the regimes that support Assad.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Sep 8, 2013

Why was an American jailed in North Korea?

April 29, 2013

Editor’s update: The US government on Monday urged North Korea to free US citizen Kenneth Bae on “humanitarian grounds” as it sought to pin down the charges against him.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Apr 29, 2013

North Korea’s new drug addiction

January 1, 2011

SEOUL, South Korea — For years, crystal meth has been the intoxicant of choice for North Korean drug users. They take the stimulant recreationally, or occasionally to work long hours or suppress unsatisfied appetites in the impoverished countryside.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Jan 1, 2011

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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.

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Thanks to AI, Apple’s China problem is only getting worse

February 21, 2025

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.