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I believe the most important thing Americans must do is to secure their economic well-being in an increasingly challenging, complex world. What I have written about all these years is the process of creating wealth, not for any one individual, but for the United States as a whole. Ever since I was a young correspondent witnessing the emergence of China after the country opened in 1979, I’ve believed we have to get more serious about creating wealth. I retain faith in the resiliency of the U.S. economy and the enterprise of American people. If Americans have the right strategies, we can once again create widespread wealth. Come with me on this journey.
The dream of a global unfettered Internet is dying
May 27, 2021
When the Internet first started taking root, many enthusiasts including myself thought it would become a great connector of people around the world. It would build mutual understanding and maybe even foster peace. How incredibly naive, as we are now discovering. The latest news from The New York Times is that Russia is cracking down on […]
How China Manipulates the United Nations System
May 26, 2021
We’ve just witnessed how China influences the World Health Organization as it sought to investigate the origins of Covid-19. But that is just a piece of the broader pattern, as this report from Gateway House in Mumbai has concluded. China is, for example, trying to manipulate the U.N. agency in charge of international telecommunications standards […]
Apple Is the Wealthiest Corporation in History–What if the Chinese Communist Party Shapes Its Behavior?
May 24, 2021
This is an excellent article by Lauren Jackson in today’s New York Times interviewing Shoshana Zuboff, author of “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.” Zuboff says: “Apple is the wealthiest and most powerful corporation, certainly in modern history, perhaps in the history of capitalism. And Apple now exerts unilateral, essentially unaccountable control over critical communications infrastructures, […]
The compromises that Apple and other Big Tech companies make in China
May 18, 2021
Apple has made very questionable compromises with China’s Communist government to operate its data centers containing Chinese customer information there. The government essentially controls Apple’s data centers, according to this excellent article in today’s New York Times. Apple says its systems in China are “sequestered” from the rest of its global iCloud platform. Yet at […]
The Meaning of China’s Space Achievements
May 17, 2021
Americans are not paying much attention to China’s achievements in landing a spacecraft on the dark side of the moon and on landing an explorer on Mars. What these events signify, however, is that China has made stunningly fast technological progress and has reached parity with the United States in many crucial respects. Compare and […]
We are engaged in a global battle of values with China
May 10, 2021
As New York Times media columnist Ben Smith makes clear in this story today, China is attempting to persuade the world that American values are not universal values and that American messages about freedom of speech and the right to elect one’s government are corrupt. Further, the projection of these values is merely intended to […]
