Josh Chin and Liza Lin are distinguished foreign correspondents at The Wall Street Journal and the co-authors of a new book that examines China's use of technology to strengthen its authoritarian system. The book, Surveillance State: Inside China’s Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control, has been greeted with wide acclaim. Chin, who is based in Taipei, is the deputy bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal's China bureau. He is a recipient of the Dan Bolles Medal and was part of an investigative team with Lin that won the Gerald Loeb Award for international reporting in 2018. Lin covers Asia technology news for The Wall Street Journal. She was part of a team that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2021. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of my interview with them prior to the book's release.
Josh Chin. Illustration by Ellie Foreman-Peck
Q: Josh, Liza, what a terrific book you’ve written on China and its surveillance state, a book that brings us to this Orwe
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