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Tyler Cowen and Geoffrey Cain talk DeepSeek, OpenAI and Cold War II. By Bari Weiss THE FREE PRESS February 6, 2025 Two weeks ago, America
Tyler Cowen and Geoffrey Cain talk DeepSeek, OpenAI and Cold War II. By Bari Weiss THE FREE PRESS February 6, 2025 Two weeks ago, America
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.
TikTok dodges the hard questions about its China connections By Mike WackerThe Burner FilesOctober 11, 2022 The following is a guest post from Mike Wacker,
By Andrew Thornebrooke and Jan Jekielek9/30/2022 Social media giant TikTok and its nebulous connections to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) present a threat to U.S. national security, according
Social Media’s Impact on Homeland SecurityGeoffrey Cain, Senior Fellow for Critical Emerging Technologies, Lincoln NetworkSeptember 14, 2022 Chairman Peters, Ranking Member Portman, and Members of
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
September 16, 2021 The Uyghurs’ real-life dystopia in Xinjiang offers a glimpse of a political and technological future George Orwell could only imagine. Show notes
“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
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
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
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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.