Few subjects are as important as the race to integrate Artificial Intelligence into human decision-making. It has clear geopolitical and military significance because the country that can do it first will obtain enormous advantages over other countries, both in monitoring and analyzing their IT systems and also in prevailing militarily without necessarily firing a shot. […]…
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An Important New Book on Turkey
It took my old pal, Thomas Goltz, 40 years to write this book entitled The Bridge but at last it’s out, seen here. I have written an introduction. I’m certainly no area specialist, having been to Istanbul only once, but Turkey is clearly on the move–in Libya, in eastern Mediterranean waters claimed by Greece, in […]…
VP Debate: Incoherence on China
The interviewer, Susan Page, asked a brilliant question last night–how would you define the U.S. relationship with China? Neither candidate could provide a coherent answer, as the transcript below shows. The central challenge we face, as I argued in The New Art of War and other places, is to recognize the nature of the conflict […]…
China’s GNC deal must be stopped
Marco Rubio is right–the U.S. government should block the sale of GNC, the struggling health supplement chain, because China will obtain millions of health records of Americans. Different Chinese entities already have stolen massive amounts of information about American’s credit ratings, their travel patterns and their health care information. And we know that some Chinese […]…
The first report on how China is using our data
I’m surprised this story in Britain’s Guardian hasn’t made headlines in the United States, at least not yet. This is the first credible story suggesting that companies linked to China’s Ministry of State Security are scraping websites for personal details about prominent Americans and other nationalities and compiling dossiers on them. Some 52,000 Americans are said […]…
