I did this one on China Unscripted without co-author Michael McLaughlin but we covered some major issues in a very lively and understandable conversation. Be sure to start at the beginning…
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Co-author Mike McLaughlin and I speak at the Overseas Press Club
John Avlon of CNN was the moderator. The video can be seen here. Be sure to start from the beginning…
Biden and the White House Press Corps–The China Problem
Watching and listening to President Biden at his press conference in Vietnam, I was struck by how the president and the press who cover him have entirely the wrong mental construct about China. At a time when China is exploiting the weaknesses of America’s computers, sending spy balloons over sensitive U.S. military installations, and planting […]…
Co-author Mike McLaughlin and I talk to James Fallows about Battlefield Cyber
This was a great discussion! You can listen to all of it here. Mike and I explain how China and Russia are exploiting the Internet and social media as well as thousands of our computing systems…
New report says China forces U.S. tech companies to share new vulnerabilities
Wired is reporting on a study establishing that the Chinese government demands that American technology companies operating in China inform the government of any newly discovered software vulnerabilities–before it tells its own customers. It appears that those vulnerabilities are then put into a database that can be accessed by Chinese hacking agencies. No wonder America’s […]…