New book details how Beijing adopted, integrated and applied technologies to suppress its Uighur minority in Xinjiang By Andrew Salmon Asia Times June 29, 2021 China has mastered the using of surveillance technology in its clampdown on Xinjiang. Image: Facebook Merge...
A scarifying dive into China’s pernicious spy state. Enlisting interviews with Uyghur refugees in Turkey, where he now lives, American investigative journalist Cain digs into the “sophisticated surveillance dystopia” set up by the Chinese government. By Geoffrey Cain...
The U.S. has failed to achieve its missions in Afghanistan and Iraq, but the War on Terror’s legacy lives on in nearby western China. By Geoffrey Cain Published June 29, 2021 in Lit Hub Irfan was a technology worker in his thirties who came from Urumqi, the regional...
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 cursed, oppressed, outcast population. Most citizens cannot discern between enemy and friend. Social...
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 internal enemy of its own creation. A Chinese police officer takes his position by the road near...
