Geoffrey Cain is American journalist, author, and writer. He specializes in Asian-based reporting. Cain is an expert on business groups in Asia, especially South Korea's chaebol, or family-run conglomerates like Samsung and Hyundai. His work has appeared in The Economist, Time and The Wall Street Journal.
A scarifying dive into China's pernicious spy state...A prescient, alarming work on the overreach of technology and state power. --Kirkus Reviews The Perfect Police State should come with a warning: the scope of the Chinese surveillance state is deeper, broader, more insidious and terrifying than you can imagine. Geoffrey Cain deftly details how China has used global businesses, unabashed censorship at home and alliances with authoritarian regimes to create an ever-expanding police state. Cain doesn't lose sight of the people entrapped by the system... The Perfect Police State is a tour-de-force.--Elizabeth Becker, author of When the War Was Over Packing a wealth of information into a crisp narrative, this is an impassioned and well-informed expose. --Publishers Weekly The future has arrived and it is beyond anything George Orwell could have imagined. In this important new book, Cain details exactly how the Chinese Communist Party deployed 21st century technology--facial recognition, DNA tracking, artificial intelligence--to trap millions of its own citizens in a terrifying dystopia. --Barbara Demick, author of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea In an expose that is as timely as it is alarming, Geoffrey Cain shows how China is using artificial intelligence and totalitarian repression to turn its westernmost region into a human-rights hellhole. After reading The Perfect Police State, it is impossible to regard the Chinese leadership with anything other than contempt--and fear. --Blaine Harden, author of Escape from Camp 14