Writing

Artificial Power

KAI-FU LEE AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 2018

By Geoffrey Cain
Mekong Review

May 2019

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North Korea Is Not Vietnam

Expecting the brutally repressive state to liberalize magically the way Vietnam did is a pipe dream.

By Geoffrey Cain
The New Republic

Feb 28, 2019

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New coins, no change

I trekked through Washington DC on a mission. The US government had released a commemorative coin showing Donald Trump and Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un face-to-face. Their respective flags were behind them and above them the words “peace talks” in Korean and English.

By Geoffrey Cain
Mekong Review

May 29, 2018

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Fake News and the Death of Democracy in Cambodia

At half-past-midnight on September 3, more than 100 police raided the home of Cambodia’s opposition leader, Kem Sokha. The security forces hustled him away to a maximum-security prison just outside of Phnom Penh. More than two months later, he’s languishing in a cell, awaiting trial for treason.

By Geoffrey Cain
The Nation

Nov 21, 2017

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