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Inside China's Surveillance State: Liza Lin and Josh Chin

Intelligence Matters

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AI Machine Learning - What's Next?

The most vivid example in China is Xinjiang, which is a remote region far northwestern China on the doorstep of Central Asia. The Uyghurs have always chafed at Communist Party and at Han Chinese rule. And so they've rolled out what I think is probably the closest thing we've ever gotten to a truly dystopian, sort of Orwellian surveillance state. If you're a Uyghur, moving around in Xinjiang, outside or even inside your home, basically everything you're doing is capable of being recorded and analyzed in real time.

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