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Geoffrey Cain UnHerd January 28, 2025 Geoffrey Cain, policy director of the Tech Integrity Project and author of The Perfect Police State, joins Emily to
Geoffrey Cain UnHerd January 28, 2025 Geoffrey Cain, policy director of the Tech Integrity Project and author of The Perfect Police State, joins Emily to
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
The company’s China outpost has trained scientists who’ve gone on to work for top surveillance companies. By Geoffrey CainThe DispatchMay 11, 2023 Schoolchildren walk
When Tik Tok arrived in the United States in 2017, it was framed as a harmless cultural export: a platform for dances, jokes, and viral creativity. But for anyone who had seen China’s surveillance state up close, its arrival felt ominous. Tik Tok is owned by ByteDance, a company deeply entangled with the Chinese Communist Party’s system of mass surveillance—one that has enabled the detention of up to 1.8 million Uyghurs in Xinjiang. While the West debates whether concerns about Tik Tok amount to xenophobia, the app has already played a quieter role: suppressing information about a genocide, normalizing authoritarian power, and testing how easily human rights abuses can be made invisible in plain sight.
State-owned companies have bought many acres near U.S. military bases. What is Beijing up to? By Lars Erik Schönander and Geoffrey CainWall Street JournalSeptember 8,
Critics say the cars represent another threat to the rights of Uyghurs in the region, experts say. By Gulchehra HojaRFA UyghurJuly 14, 2022 China
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
“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
July 22, 2021Moderated by Taylor Owen In this episode of Big Tech, Taylor Owen speaks with Geoffrey Cain, author of The Perfect Police State, about
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
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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.