It is more than 70 years since the English writer George Orwell's novel "1984" shook the world with its dire warning about a "Big Brother" regime that suppresses personal freedom. Geoffrey Cain's book "The Perfect Police State" argues that this dystopian nightmare now exists in China's Xinjiang region.
Cain's alarming book takes a detailed look at how China has utilized mass surveillance, data mining, facial recognition and artificial intelligence to facilitate mass detention, torture and alleged genocide against Uyghurs -- a mostly Muslim group that has long populated this remote region of western China.
