From the Telegraph via Yahoo, this article describes how Boris Johnson’s government may allow the sale of Britain’s largest semiconductor manufacturing facility, Wafer Fab, to a Chinese company operating through a Dutch subsidiary. This is absolute madness and reflects the failure of the Western capitalistic system to respond to China’s strategic challenge. If an entity is […]…
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The world has not yet witnessed China’s full cyber power
The world has not yet witnessed China’s full cyber power Analysts who are paying attention realize that China has reached near-parity or absolute advantage in some areas of communications and computing with the United States. They were first, for example, to develop 5G wireless telecommunications technology and the United States still does not have it. […]…
This Wall Street Journal video shows how TikTok targets users–it’s all based on a secret algorithm controlled from China
Biden Should Tell Business Execs We Face a “Digital Pearl Harbor”
I welcome news that President Biden will be meeting with business leaders next month to talk about the incredible wave of cyber attacks and ransomware attacks. What should he tell them? First off, based on what I found in research for my book, A Grand Strategy: Countering Technology, and Restoring the Media, the president should […]…
My OPC Book Night with CNN’s John Avlon
William J. Holstein Examines The Rise Of China And A Teetering News Industry by Chad Bouchard In his new book, OPC Past President William J. Holstein weaves his own personal experience as China correspondent in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with four decades of insight as a close observer of the country’s trajectory, commenting […]…