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Josh Chin is Deputy Bureau Chief in China for The Wall Street Journal. He previously covered politics in China for the newspaper for more than a decade. He is a recipient of the Dan Bolles Medal, awarded to investigative journalists who have exhibited courage in standing up against intimidation, and led an investigative team that won the Gerald Loeb Award for international reporting in 2018. He has also been awarded two Human Rights Press Awards and an award for excellence in investigative reporting from the Society of Publishers in Asia.

Josh was named a National Fellow at New America in 2020. The following year, he was among the first of more than a dozen American reporters to be expelled from China. He currently splits his time between Se ...more

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	Surveillance State: China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control by Josh Chin (Goodreads Author), Liza Lin (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 682 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frommer's China by Peter Neville-Hadley, J. D. Brown, Josh Chin (Goodreads Author) 3.79 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2003 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frommer's Beijing by Graeme Smith, Josh Chin (Goodreads Author), Peter Neville-Hadley 3.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frommer's Beijing by Graeme Smith, Josh Chin (Goodreads Author), Peter Neville-Hadley 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“2020 alone, Chinese people used mobile payment systems to conduct more than 123 billion transactions worth $67.5 trillion, nearly eleven times the total global credit and debit payment volumes recorded by MasterCard that year.”
― Josh Chin, Surveillance State: China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control

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“And as with the Palestinians, Uyghurs’ pain at the loss of control over their homeland was exacerbated by cultural and ideological frictions with the potential to spark explosions of righteous anger.”
― Josh Chin, Surveillance State: China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control

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“To illustrate this last point, Ma brought up the example of a would-be terrorist preparing a bomb attack. “It is normal for a person to buy a pressure cooker, it’s normal for a person to buy a clock, it’s normal even for a person to buy gunpowder and ball bearings, but if one buys all those things together, then it is not normal,” he said. Algorithms could be built to spot those suspicious purchasing patterns and flag them to authorities. “The political and legal system of the future is inseparable from the internet, inseparable from big data,” he said. “Bad guys won’t even be able to walk into the square.” Whether by “the square” Ma meant to evoke Tiananmen Square was uncertain, but the substance of his message was clear: Alibaba’s data could help prevent existential threats to the Party’s power.”
― Josh Chin, Surveillance State: China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control

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