The Chinese Surveillance State, Part 2

In Part 2 of our series, we tell the story of an American citizen whose family members have been detained in Chinese re-education camps for Uighurs and members of other Muslim minority groups. We look at what his efforts to free them reveal about the global reach of China’s surveillance. Guest: Paul Mozur, a technology reporter for The New York Times based in Shanghai, spoke with Ferkat Jawdat, a Uighur and American citizen who lives in Virginia. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

Background reading:

• Ethnic Uighurs and other Muslim minorities have been sent to camps in vast numbers • in what is China’s most sweeping internment operation since the Mao era. • Chinese officers have attempted to suppress opposition from Uighurs abroad • by detaining their relatives. • The Trump administration has avoided addressing the persecution of the Uighurs during trade talks with China • , fearing such a move could jeopardize a deal.

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Release date

Lydbog: 7. maj 2019