Throwing down the gauntlet means issuing a direct challenge and that’s what top Chinese diplomats have done this week in Alaska. Some Chinese diplomats around the world have been aggressive as part of what they called “wolf warrior” actions. But now China’s top two diplomats have established beyond a shadow of a doubt that China […]…
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China Is Building Its Own Undersea Internet Cable
To anyone who wonders whether the United States can share an international communications platform with China, at a time when its internal systems are barricaded from the rest of the world’s, now comes this. According to Shira Ovide in the New York Times over the weekend, China is building an undersea cable to France, which […]…
Have China and Russia Penetrated America’s Tech Giants?
If you add up the pieces, the evidence is beginning to mount that America’s tech giants have been compromised from within, as Mike McLauglin and I argued in a piece in November in the National Interest. Item No. 1 is this article in today’s New York Times. It seems that two major recent cyberattacks succeeded […]…
Microsoft Says Chinese Government-Backed Entity Has Hacked It
For years, America’s major technology companies have operated in China but remained completely mum about reports that Chinese state-backed hacking organizations have engaged in cyber attacks against them. Amazon and Apple went to enormous lengths to deny BusinessWeek’s allegations in 2018 that the People’s Liberation Army placed tiny chips on motherboards that were placed in […]…
President Biden Just Committed “Industrial Policy.” Will Anyone Object? Or Does It Point The Way to Counter China?
The United States has had a long and tangled debate about the term “industrial policy,” which is a codeword for asking, what is the proper relationship between the federal government and private industry? The Biden Administration has just exercised industrial policy in a most forceful manner. Officials reached out to the pharmacetical company Merck, which […]…
