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...

Streamed June 29, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLm4cU3tYcQ 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...

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...

Cain accuses the Chinese government of creating “the world’s most sophisticated surveillance dystopia” in the Xinjiang province, where an estimated 1.8 million Uighurs, Kazakhs, and members of other Muslim ethnic minorities “have been accused by the government of...

Today Samsung — by far South Korea’s most powerful conglomerate with more than 50 affiliates from electronics and insurance to hotels and apartments — is a larger smartphone manufacturer than Apple, and at the same time a key supplier to its great rival.

By AFP
The Economic Times

Mar 22, 2020

Biographies are prominent sights on non-fiction shelves, and many become classics. Business bios? Less so. But a new entry to the genre – Geoffrey Cain’s Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant that Set out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech (Penguin Random House, 2020) – is a corker.

By Andrew Salmon
Asia Times

Mar 20, 2020

Journalist Geoffrey Cain leaves the reader hanging at the end of his book, Samsung Rising, out this week, wondering how Korea’s supreme court will rule on Lee’s retrial on bribery charges.

By Donald Kirk
Forbes

Mar 19, 2020

Geoffrey Cain, a journalist who has reported for The Economist and the Wall Street Journal, does his material proud. Unlike their Silicon Valley counterparts, Asia’s tech champions lack the type of leaders that are sufficiently well known to carry a business biography: no mercurial Steve Jobs or Elon Musk and certainly no college dropouts such as Mark Zuckerberg or Elizabeth Holmes of scandal-ridden Theranos to act as storytelling device.

By Louise Lucas
Financial Times

Mar 19, 2020

The following is an excerpt from Geoffrey Cain’s new book “Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech,” about the South Korean company’s journey from grocery store to tech giant.

By Andie Corban and Kai Ryssdal
Marketplace

Mar 17, 2020