I haven’t seen anyone yet add up three events that have occurred within the past week–the United States has agreed to deploy very advanced radar in South Korea, Japanese voters in the most recent election have given Prime Minister Shinzo Abe enough power that he will now almost certainly strengthen Japan’s military posture, and most […]…
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Reflections on Autonomous Driving Behind the Wheel of a Cadillac CT6
Those of us who have been following the subject of autonomous driving for years knew that the world was not yet ready for completely autonomous vehicles in wide-open road conditions. It’s too bad that a Tesla driver had to find that out the hard way recently in Florida. The car’s AutoPilot program did not recognize […]…
The Continued Travesty of Steve Rattner Writing For The New York Times
The New York Times has a serious ethical issue. Because Steve Rattner is a childhood friend of Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the newspaper’s publisher and scion of the founding family, he is allowed to write articles on the op ed pages like this one today. In an otherwise completely pedestrian piece, Rattner is allowed to score […]…
Wall Street Journal Does An Ideological Ambush
I’ve been doing a slow burn about this hatchet job. Antoine van Agtmael and journalist Fred Bakker have a new book out entitled, “The Smartest Places on Earth: Why Rustbelts Are The Emerging Hotspots of Global Innovation.” This is a familiar theme to me because I was the editor of the 1992 Business Week cover […]…
China Watchers: Reform Is Over
The mainstream of China watchers are finally beginning to face up to the fact that President Xi Jinping is determined to impose a very different political and economic model on his country than what many in the West had hoped for. In this very fine piece for China File, Thomas Kellogg of the Open Air Foundations […]…
