U.S. universities keep ties to Chinese schools that support China’s military buildup, report says Dan De Luce Fri, December 10, 2021, 9:00 AM Dozens of U.S. universities maintain ties to Chinese universities that conduct defense research in support of Beijing’s military buildup, including work related to the country’s nuclear weapons program, according to a […]…
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The depth of TikTok’s China ties is revealed
Ben Smith, writing his media column in today’s New York Times, has obtained an internal TikTok document describing how algorithms written in Beijing are fueling its explosive growth and its ability to essentially addict viewers. Much of that is already well-understood. But he also reveals just how deeply TikTok is intertwined with its Chinese parent […]…
New York Times Compares Beijing Winter Olympics with Hitler’s 1936 Olympics
I’ve been hearing the human rights crowd calling the Winter Games in Beijing in February the “genocide games” because the world seems to be celebrating the brutal regime of Xi Jinping. But the mainstream media has largely avoided the unpleasant comparison between Beijing 2022 and Hitler’s 1936 Olympics in Germany. Now, however, the New York […]…
Chinese Government is Openly Telling U.S. Companies to lobby on its behalf
With great drama playing out over whether the world will stage diplomatic boycotts of the Winter Games in February and whether tennis star Peng Shuai will be allowed to emerge from isolation, the Chinese government is openly telling American companies they should lobby the U.S. government to not take any steps that would hurt the […]…
The stark divide in thinking about China between American CEOs and the intelligence/military/security world.
Why is there such a gap in the thinking of American CEOs vs. the thinking of the American intelligence, security and military leadership when it comes to China? To help understand the gap in thinking, let me explain […]…
