Kai Strittmatter: Life in China's Surveillance State

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Kai Strittmatter: Life in China's Surveillance State

Andrew Keen

Aug 29, 2020

On today's episode, Kai Strittmatter, foreign correspondent and author of We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State, discusses a return of totalitarianism and digital self-policing as the new panopticon.

Kai Strittmatter was for more than a decade the China correspondent for Germany's national newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung. Fluent in Mandarin, he has studied China for more than 30 years, including extensive stints in Xi'an and Taipei. He is now a fellow at the Mercator Institute for China Studies in Berlin.

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