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The reason the Trump Administration hasn’t made a big TikTok announcement is that they are trying to have it both ways–American billionaires make money but the Chinese retain control over the underlying technology, two experts argue in the New York Times guest essay seen below. They note that powerful American investors have invested in ByteDance, […]…

President Trump’s administration has just authorized Nvidia to sell its second most advanced chips to China, the H200’s. It’s obvious that the Chinese will use the chips to advance their work on Artificial Intelligence, which has equally obvious military and strategic uses–it’s widely assumed that in any armed conflict, AI systems will be able to […]…

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 […]…