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China's 'Perfect Police State' That Monitors Uyghurs; Invasive Vines Take Over Trees
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English - August 09, 2021 18:44 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MB - ★★★★ - 703 ratingsArts comedy news books science entrepreneurship interview health culture politics business Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
We speak with investigative reporter Geoffrey Cain who writes about the Chinese surveillance of the Uyghur ethnic minority in western China. He writes about the sophisticated technology and a so-called predictive policing system in his new book, "The Perfect Police State." And, trees in neighborhoods all over the mid-Atlantic U.S. are being choked by fast growing, non-native vines. As Jacob Fenston of WAMU reports, a new study says freeing trees from these invasive vines is an essential tool to fight climate change.