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The US tech companies behind China’s mass surveillance

Tom Miller describes how Xinjiang became a laboratory for China’s mass surveillance system – built with the help of US tech companies

17 July 2021

9:00 AM

17 July 2021

9:00 AM

The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future Geoffrey Cain

Public Affairs, pp.304, 25

In January, the United States declared that China’s brutal treatment of the Uighur people in Xinjiang amounted to genocide. ‘I believe this genocide is ongoing, and we are witnessing the systematic attempt to destroy the Uighurs by the Chinese party-state,’ said Mike Pompeo, the former US secretary of state. British MPs made a similar declaration in April.

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