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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 […]…

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 […]…

This is a great video on the ThinkPad book. Enjoy…

I agree with Susan Rice, writing in today’s New York Times. In one trip, an American president has inflicted grievous damage to our nation’s position in Asia. Presidents both Democratic and Republican have been pursuing very similar paths for decades: An expansion of cross-border trade and investment has created one of history’s greatest economic expansions […]…

President Trump appeared before the South Korean National Assembly and revealed a complete lack of understanding of the dynamics between China and North Korea. “Why would China feel an obligation to help North Korea?” Trump asked rhetorically. The answer is that China’s No. 1 priority is to preserve stability on the Korean Peninsula and to […]…