I was wrong about China’s ability to innovate–and the implications are enormous

For years, I have been a skeptic that China could out-innovate the United States. A top-down Communist Party system dependent on state-owned enterprises could not allow a flowering of cutting-edge new ideas. The lone exception was that Chinese private sector organizations could buy failing but still promising technology divisions of Western companies, as Lenovo did […]…

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Is the Japanese government bribing the Trump family?

I’m just learning that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a $50 million contribution to a women’s finance initiative that Ivanka Trump created and did so during a visit she made to Tokyo on Nov. 3 just days before her father, President Donald Trump, started his Asian tour in Japan. My Japanese sources tell me that […]…

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