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China Tries to Lure in Wall Street–and the China Institute is Helping
April 27, 2021
The government of Xi Jinping has a clear objective in seeking to lure in American financial entities into China. They obviously want access to more capital, but the Chinese also view Wall Street as an important ally in shaping American governmental policy toward China. The Chinese have astutely recognized that Wall Street has power in […]
Is Facebook helping Chinese government propaganda masters?
April 3, 2021
This article from the Wall Street Journal is behind a pay wall but it’s worth the irritation of pasting it and cleaning it up here. The Chinese are using Facebook, Twitter and perhaps other U.S. social media platforms banned from China to spread their propaganda around the world. Facebook’s revenue from Chinese advertisers may exceed […]
China Throws Down the Gauntlet
March 20, 2021
Throwing down the gauntlet means issuing a direct challenge and that’s what top Chinese diplomats have done this week in Alaska. Some Chinese diplomats around the world have been aggressive as part of what they called “wolf warrior” actions. But now China’s top two diplomats have established beyond a shadow of a doubt that China […]
China Is Building Its Own Undersea Internet Cable
March 16, 2021
To anyone who wonders whether the United States can share an international communications platform with China, at a time when its internal systems are barricaded from the rest of the world’s, now comes this. According to Shira Ovide in the New York Times over the weekend, China is building an undersea cable to France, which […]
Have China and Russia Penetrated America’s Tech Giants?
March 15, 2021
If you add up the pieces, the evidence is beginning to mount that America’s tech giants have been compromised from within, as Mike McLauglin and I argued in a piece in November in the National Interest. Item No. 1 is this article in today’s New York Times. It seems that two major recent cyberattacks succeeded […]
Microsoft Says Chinese Government-Backed Entity Has Hacked It
March 7, 2021
For years, America’s major technology companies have operated in China but remained completely mum about reports that Chinese state-backed hacking organizations have engaged in cyber attacks against them. Amazon and Apple went to enormous lengths to deny BusinessWeek’s allegations in 2018 that the People’s Liberation Army placed tiny chips on motherboards that were placed in […]
