China Is Already Interfering in America’s election

The pundits have long warned that China and Russia will seek to interfere in the 2024 elections in the United States. But it has already started, according to this article in today’s New York Times. Meta, the parent company of Facebook, said it had identified 4,789 fake Chinese accounts on Facebook. The fake accounts copied […]…

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Kissinger’s Critical Mistake–Not Understanding Xi Jinping

Henry Kissinger was undoubtedly a brilliant man, but he made one critical mistake–assuming that Xi Jinping would continue the policies of his predecessors–Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zimin and Hu Jintao. Even after Xi started consolidating power in 2012 and 2013, Kissinger believed that the United States and China had the power to essentially govern the world […]…

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TikTok is Manipulating American Political Opinion

The New York Times front-paged an article on Saturday which means it won’t receive as much attention as it would during the week. It was headlined “TikTok Videos Show Despair Over Economy” and here is the electronic version, which had a stronger headline: “Want to Know What’s Bedeviling Biden? TikTok Economics May Hold Clues.” The […]…

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Politico’s China Newsletter Asks Three Questions about Battlefield Cyber

Here’s the full newsletter: https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/china-watcher/biden-calls-xi-a-dictator-again/ Here’s just the piece about Battlefield Cyber: ONE BOOK, THREE QUESTIONS JPrzemyslaw Klos/EyeEm/iStock/Getty Images Plus and Peter Dazeley/iStock/Getty Images and Enterline Design Services. The Book: Battlefield Cyber: How China and Russia are Undermining our Democracy and National Security  The Authors: Michael G. McLaughlin is co-chair of the Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Practice Group at […]…

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