Lawfare Daily: Investigating the Investigators: Sophia Yan on Journalism in the PRC
5/27/202648 min
Senior Editor Michael Feinberg sits down with Sophia Yan, a senior foreign correspondent with The Telegraph, to discuss her time reporting on the Chinese government, and how it leveraged its security services to investigate her in turn. Sophia recently wrote in-depth about this experience in “The secret Chinese surveillance programme tracking people like me,” in The Telegraph.
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Sophia Yan· Guest1:09
[upbeat music] The platform itself was really fascinating because it was a back-end look at how the government is seeking to bring all these data points together that they have from this closed internet, from the millions of security cameras that they've installed over the years,