The Chinese Surveillance State, Part 1

Published: May 6, 2019, 9:55 a.m.

b'Under President Xi Jinping, China is pioneering a new form of governance by surveillance. In the first of a two-part series, we look at how China tested that system by targeting one minority group. Guest: Paul Mozur, a technology reporter for The New York Times based in Shanghai. For more information on today\\u2019s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. \\n\\nBackground reading: Chinese authorities are expanding an extensive surveillance net by using a vast, secret system of facial recognition technology to control the Uighurs, a largely Muslim minority.Technology built for China\\u2019s surveillance system is now being applied \\u2014 and sometimes abused \\u2014 by other governments.'