Elon Musk Is Utterly Unfit to Own X

Elon Musk has broken ranks with the other Big Tech companies that own major social media platforms. Zuckerberg et al are not making any effort to monitor or curate their “content.” But Musk has taken it a step further and is flooding X with his own posts, many of which are deepfakes, falsehoods or memes. […]…

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The New York Times and my book, The New Art of War

Five years ago, I published a book entitled The New Art of War: China’s Deep Strategy Inside the United States, seen here. I detailed how the Chinese government ruthlessly exploits Chinese nationals and Chinese-Americans inside the United States, whether they be students in American universities, researchers at key laboratories, or players in the political arena. […]…

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The arrest of Telegram’s Pavel Durov–Free Speech Doesn’t Allow Us to Shout “Fire” in a Crowded Theater

As someone who has been involved in the media my entire adult life, I’ve watched the billionaires who control big social media platforms argue that there can be no restraints on their “free speech.” They argue that the First Amendment, plus Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, gives them carte blanche to allow any […]…

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Hit Nvidia with a $500 million fine for violating U.S. national security–that should wake up the semiconductor industry

     It’s time for semiconductor designers and manufacturers from the United States and Taiwan to start taking responsibility for selling advanced chips to Chinese entities, many of whom are related to the People’s Liberation Army, as per this fine piece https://lnkd.in/ey4ExM3T in the New York Times describes. Companies in other nations such as Holland, […]…

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Why the Korean Peninsula Could Be Trickier than Taiwan Under Trump-2

A great deal of attention is rightly focused on what happens to American relations with Taiwan and China under a second Trump presidency. But the Korean peninsula is potentially more volatile and therefore dangerous, partly because Russian leader Vladimir Putin is promising new military technology to Pyongyang. The Taiwan situation involved three primary players–Washington, Taipei […]…

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