Conversations with Correspondents: Geoffrey Cain on China's 'Perfect Police State'

Join us on Friday, July 16 at 12 p.m. for this virtual event. Click here to register.

Jul 16 2021

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Jul 16, 2021 at 12:00pm

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Geoffrey Cain, an award-winning foreign correspondent and National Press Club member, will discuss his new book “The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future” at a virtual event at 12pm on Friday, July 16.

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Blocked from facts and truth, under constant surveillance, surrounded by a hostile alien police force: Xinjiang’s Uyghur population has become cursed, oppressed, outcast. Most citizens cannot discern between enemy and friend. Social trust has been destroyed systematically. Friends betray each other, bosses snitch on employees, teachers expose their students, and children turn on their parents. Everyone is dependent on a government that nonetheless treats them with suspicion and contempt. Welcome to the Perfect Police State.

Using the haunting story of one young woman’s attempt to escape the vicious technological dystopia, his own reporting from Xinjiang, and extensive first hand testimony from exiles, Cain reveals the extraordinary intrusiveness and power of the tech surveillance giants and the chilling implications for all our futures.

Cain was a former correspondent at The Economist and is a regular commentator in The Wall Street Journal, Time, and The New Republic, and a frequent guest on CNN, MSNBC, BBC and Bloomberg. His first book, SAMSUNG RISING, from a decade of his coverage of the world’s largest technology conglomerate, was published in March 2020.

Cain will discuss his new book and reporting from China's Xinjiang region during a one-hour program moderated by NPC board member and Lead Justice Department and Federal Law Enforcement Reporter at the AP, Mike Balsamo. This event is hosted by the International Correspondents and Young Members teams.