Josh Chin on China's Surveillance State

It's hard to believe what was happening in Xinjiang and most Chinese people didn't believe, but now they do. A lot of them do.

Josh Chin

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A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com (wp.me/pavhaU-2gZ).

Josh Chin is the Deputy Bureau Chief for China at the Wall Street Journal and the coauthor with Liza Lin of the book Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control (amzn.to/3JzFwd5).

Key Highlights
• Introduction - 0:38
• Describing Xinjiang - 2:38
• Social Engineering - 11:21
• Privacy in China - 19:08
• AI in China - 28:23

Key Links

Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control (amzn.to/3ZYdaAu) by Josh Chin and Liza Lin

Read more from Josh Chin in the Wall Street Journal (wsj.com/news/author/josh-chin)

"The Mandarin in the Machine (journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the-mandarin-i…)" A review of Surveillance State in Journal of Democracy by Will Dobson

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