Frank Bruni agrees with my media analysis in A Grand Strategy

New York Times columnist Frank Bruni has ended a 10-year run with this piece which largely agrees with my description of how the mainstream media has changed over the decades. That is a major theme of “A Grand Strategy: Countering China, Taming Technology, and Restoring the Media,” seen here on Amazon. Here are a couple of […]…

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Stunningly, #Apple Has No Plan B for #China

The media pressure on Apple is building, as evidenced by this article in today’s NY Times. Apple assembles nearly every iPhone, iPad and IMac in China. One reason is that the Chinese government has built roads and other infrastructure. The supply of labor is a factor. Another is that Apple’s entire supply chain is concentrated […]…

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A Grand Strategy–Now Available on Amazon

My long labor of love, A Grand Strategy: Countering China, Taming Technology, and Restoring the Media, is now available on Amazon here. I started the book by writing down the many stories of my fabled career but then realized I had a burning messages directly relevant to today’s debates about China and technology. Having been […]…

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How To Stop China From Taking Advantage of the New $250 Billion Tech Bill

I sincerely doubt that Xi Jinping is quaking in his boots about the U.S. government’s attempts to reinvigorate America’s technology prowess. The reason? His party-state has proven that it can steal or buy ideas from America’s labs and start-ups and develop and commercialize them faster than the Americans can. In other words, if the new […]…

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