If this report from the Center for Security and Emerging Technology, based on a report from the Verge, is true, the Chinese may have taken advantage of the West’s distraction with Ukraine to stage an attack on Nvidia, one of the most sophisticated chip designers in the United States. The company, run by Taiwanese based […]…
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A brilliant new study on China’s global digital ambitions–it wishes to disrupt liberal democracies.
I just happened to stumble over a study that should be on every serious person’s reading list. It is entitled, “China’s Digital Ambitions: A Global Strategy to Supplant the Liberal Order.” It is from the National Bureau of Asian Research. It is available free to download here. We have known that Huawei’s 5G wireless communications […]…
For American CEOs: Is It The End of Globalization?
For generations, American chief executive officers and other top managers have believed that it was their job to create global platforms that would maximize their short-term profits and hence their share price. It did not matter where the companies sold their products or services, where they obtained financing, where they developed or sold technology, or […]…
China is complicit in Putin’s invasion of Ukraine
By blaming the United States for creating the problem, China is clearly coming down on Putin’s side in the court of world opinion. Its spokeman is calling the United States “clearly irresponsible and immoral.” This is therefore a decisive moment in U.S.-China relations. Xi Jinping is actively trying to discredit the United States as it […]…
The Crisis That U.S. Companies Face in China
The Winter Olympics were merely a snapshot of the dilemma that U.S. companies are facing in China. One very good look at the problem was buried on page B3 on a Saturday of a holiday weekend in the New York Times by Ana Swanson. It deserves wider reading so here’s the link. As I wrote […]…