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Outsiders often struggle to understand a basic question, Who Is Xi Jinping? History teaches us many lessons about rapid ideological change in China and how profoundly the nation can be forced to shift gears. I know because I lived through and reported on one such shift during my time in Hong Kong and Beijing from […]…

President Trump told reporters in Tokyo who asked about his impending meeting with Xi Jinping, “I like him. He likes me.” He predicted a successful “transaction.” The notion that Xi “likes” Trump and would allow that to influence Chinese policies is laughable. And the fact that Trump thinks about managing China as a “transaction” reveals […]…

This is the most important article in today’s New York Times. “The Trump Administration’s cuts to federal programs have eroded U.S. cyberspace defenses…” And quoting Angus King of Maine, a senator who helped lead by Cyberspace Solarium Commission,, “I would call it almost an across-the-board retreat from the national security defenses that we built up […]…

When I arrived in Beijing for United Press International in 1981 (after two years in Hong Kong), it was a time of great hope for China and no one seemed to understand that better than Jerome (Jerry) Cohen. He was a lawyer and former professor at Harvard Law School. He and his wife, Joan, were […]…