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The Realignment

194 | Extended Q&A + Geoff Cain on Xinjiang’s Police State

The Realignment

The Realignment

Saager Enjeti, Technology, Policy, News, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, Politics, News Commentary, Public Policy, U.s. Politics, National Security, Economics

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Liked this (or any other episode)? Send us a tip: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Check out our special Bookshop on Russian history: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-s-guide-to-russia We’re going to start experimenting with extended content on The Realignment. This episode features an extended Q&A section on audience capture, Ukraine, political narratives going into 2024, and whether the U.S. still has a compelling narrative in the 21st century. After, Geoffrey Cain, a FACET Fellow at Lincoln Network and author of The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future and Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech, joins The Realignment to discuss China’s controversial treatment of its Uyghur population in Xianjiang.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Marshall and Saga here, welcome back to the Realignment.

0:03.4

Hey everyone, we have a special episode for you today.

0:13.0

We know that everyone has heard the talk of oh, Saga is moving, he can't make this episode.

0:19.6

A few weeks ago I made a reference to Saga not being there during the intro and Phil

0:24.8

our producer texted me and said, Saga actually not moved yet.

0:28.6

So this episode is an episode if you are listening to audio that you should definitely be watching

0:34.1

on YouTube too because you see a preview of Saga's amazing new studio in his home.

0:40.9

Saga real quick before we get into the Q&A and the episode interview attached to this.

0:45.5

What's the deal?

0:46.5

What's this background?

0:47.5

What's cool here?

0:48.5

Yeah, yeah.

0:49.5

So this is what I've been working on everyone.

0:50.5

I know it's been a gigantic pain.

0:51.9

Trust me, I suffered probably much more than you.

0:55.2

But we're here. We actually have a place in my new place where I can film, which is set

0:59.8

up properly, which has correct lighting, which has a place for my books behind me.

1:04.8

I've been in a long pursuit of something like this behind me.

1:08.1

I've got some stuff I got from an antique store.

1:11.1

This is a US Army truck, which I found.

1:14.2

Obviously you guys know some of my books.

1:16.1

I've talked about those in the past.

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