I’ve been hearing the human rights crowd calling the Winter Games in Beijing in February the “genocide games” because the world seems to be celebrating the brutal regime of Xi Jinping. But the mainstream media has largely avoided the unpleasant comparison between Beijing 2022 and Hitler’s 1936 Olympics in Germany. Now, however, the New York […]…
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Chinese Government is Openly Telling U.S. Companies to lobby on its behalf
With great drama playing out over whether the world will stage diplomatic boycotts of the Winter Games in February and whether tennis star Peng Shuai will be allowed to emerge from isolation, the Chinese government is openly telling American companies they should lobby the U.S. government to not take any steps that would hurt the […]…
The stark divide in thinking about China between American CEOs and the intelligence/military/security world.
Why is there such a gap in the thinking of American CEOs vs. the thinking of the American intelligence, security and military leadership when it comes to China? To help understand the gap in thinking, let me explain […]…
NSA, CISA Warn That Cloud Computing May Not Be as Safe as Widely Proclaimed
Companies such as IBM, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Oracle, Google and others have made billions of dollars by persuading their corporate customers to migrate their computing functions (meaning data as well as software on demand) to “the cloud.” The cloud allows the big IT providers to manage a company’s IT systems, either offsite or onsite […]…
Yahoo Pulls Out of China–More Tech Decoupling
Yahoo Pulls Out of China, Ending Tumultuous Two-Decade Relationship From the Wall Street Journal. Article behind paywall. It is the second well-known U.S. tech firm to downsize China operations in less than a month Yahoo’s departure was largely symbolic, as the company had already begun shutting down its main services in China in 2013. PHOTO: DAVID […]…
