As President Biden’s team conducts a review of critical supply chains, one industry that should not be ignored is solar, which is clearly an industry of the future. This report from the Coalition for a Prosperous America is bang on the money. China used its financial clout to subsidize its essential control of the industry, […]…
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Microsoft Says Chinese Government-Backed Entity Has Hacked It
For years, America’s major technology companies have operated in China but remained completely mum about reports that Chinese state-backed hacking organizations have engaged in cyber attacks against them. Amazon and Apple went to enormous lengths to deny BusinessWeek’s allegations in 2018 that the People’s Liberation Army placed tiny chips on motherboards that were placed in […]…
Matt Pottinger and Tiff Roberts Talk about China–It Promises To be Fascinating
Great Power Competition: Beijing vs. the Free World Wednesday, March 10 at 6 pm Former Deputy National Security Advisor Matt Pottinger will discuss the new landscape in the great power competition between the U.S. and China, and strategic pitfalls that free countries must avoid. Go here to register. Matt Pottinger is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow […]…
President Biden Just Committed “Industrial Policy.” Will Anyone Object? Or Does It Point The Way to Counter China?
The United States has had a long and tangled debate about the term “industrial policy,” which is a codeword for asking, what is the proper relationship between the federal government and private industry? The Biden Administration has just exercised industrial policy in a most forceful manner. Officials reached out to the pharmacetical company Merck, which […]…
An Important OPC Event on March 18–How Will Biden and Xijinping Handle the Taiwan issue?
I organized this event and will moderate. See details here…
