LIFE IN CHINA’S SURVEILLANCE STATE: A BOOK TALK WITH KAI STRITTMATTER
Join Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Eric Brown and Adjunct Fellow Nury Turkel for a discussion with veteran journalist Kai Strittmatter about his groundbreaking book We Have Been Harmonised: Life in China’s Surveillance State.
China experts were once comfortable describing the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as “post-totalitarian,” but under Xi Jinping the ruling Communist Party has used big data and artificial intelligence to build a new kind of totalitarianism.
In his new book, Strittmatter looks closely at the rise of “digital Leninism,” explains how the PRC’s rulers have perfected their techno-tyranny to maintain their grip on power, and explores the global impact of these practices.