As seen in this Chinese government television clip, Beijing is arguing that the West is displaying racism towards China by pointing out that the coronavirus started there and that the initial response from the central government represented a failure to act on a timely basis. The broadcaster specifically attacks the concept of freedom of speech […]…
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Wall Street Journal: Apple’s strategy in China Is proving to be critically flawed
Tim Cook and Apple Bet Everything on China. Then Coronavirus Hit. Quarantines, tariffs and slumping sales have caused agitation about the company’s strategy of assembling most of its products there By Tripp Mickle and Yoko Kubota Updated March 3, 2020 3:28 am Long before the coronavirus struck, Apple Inc.’s AAPL 9.31% operations team began raising concerns about the technology giant’s dependency […]…
Was Jack Welch really a hero?
It is perhaps churlish to comment in less than flattering ways about someone who has just passed on to the great boardroom in the sky. But as a journalist at Business Week, I met Jack Welch when he was being lionized. Then I watched what happened after he left and Jeff Immelt tried to turn […]…
My star speaker at the OPC Foundation luncheon
Clare Baldwin, a special correspondent for Reuters based in Hong Kong, knocked the ball out of the park in these comments to the Overseas Press Club Foundation luncheon on Feb. 28…
Should American Business Care About U.S. National Security?
A very important conversation needs to start happening. American military, intelligence and security officials are recognizing that China is intent on dominating technologies of the future and that because of its “military-civilian fusion,” the increasingly fused Chinese party-state-military apparatus will use those technologies both for commercial and military gains around the world. Yet American CEOs […]…
