As a student of information and propaganda, I’m hearing a rising chorus of voices arguing that American worries about China’s technology-based drive for global dominance are “overblown.” This comes as the special House committee starts its deliberations. The timing is conspicuous. First is Jonah Goldberg, a conservative syndicated columnist writing in the Los Angeles Times […]…
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America’s Venture Capitalists are Investing in Chinese AI
The Center for Security and Emerging Technology has done it again–they have come up with break-through research on a highly sensitive U.S.-Chinese technology issue. In this case (report can be seen here). It turns out that U.S. venture capitalists are investing heavily in Chinese AI start-ups. Some 37 percent of all AI investments in China […]…
Apple Tries to Shift Out of China? Too little, too late?
Quartz is reporting that Apple’s main factory contractor, FoxConn, is about to invest $300 million in Vietnam in an effort to reduce Apple’s dependency on China as a manufacturing platform. Apple has waited too long. The Chinese almost certainly will find ways to retaliate against Apple and they have dozens of ways to do it–supply […]…
Did China figure out a way to fool America’s defenses?
There’s much gnashing of teeth about why so little is known about the three objects that have been shot down over the United States and Canada since a Chinese spy balloon was destroyed in the Atlantic Ocean. I suspect the answer is that the Chinese figured out a way to exploit “near space,” an area […]…
The biggest obstacle to Biden’s efforts to limit China tech? American CEOs
As a result of the spy balloon incident, it’s increasingly clear that the Biden Administration is going to rachet up its efforts to choke off the supply of advanced American technologies to China, as per this article in today’s New York Times. One lawyer is quoted as saying: “Industry is kind of united. We don’t […]…
