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I believe the most important thing Americans must do is to secure their economic well-being in an increasingly challenging, complex world. What I have written about all these years is the process of creating wealth, not for any one individual, but for the United States as a whole. Ever since I was a young correspondent witnessing the emergence of China after the country opened in 1979, I’ve believed we have to get more serious about creating wealth. I retain faith in the resiliency of the U.S. economy and the enterprise of American people. If Americans have the right strategies, we can once again create widespread wealth. Come with me on this journey.
Oh, no. Here we go again on Industrial Policy
May 31, 2023
One of the hardest things for Americans to get right when it comes to developing new technologies is long-term consistency of purpose. We allow the funding to be put on hold or we turn it into a partisan wrangle. That’s what happened with Solyndra, a solar power start-up in California and A123 Systems, an innovative […]
Chinese Communist Party has direct access to Americans’ TikTok data
May 13, 2023
A lawsuit filed by a former ByteDance employee (ByteDance owns TikTok) alleges that a special unit of the Chinese Communist Party inside the company monitors its apps and has access to all its data. “The (party) Committee maintained supreme access to all the company data, even data stored in the United States,” the employee’s complaint […]
Kirkus gives a “star”to Battlefield Cyber
May 10, 2023
I’m delighted to report that Kirkus Review, a publishing industry powerhouse, has given a starred review to Battlefield Cyber: How China and Russia Are Undermining Our Democracy and National Security. One of the most coveted designations in the book industry, Kirkus says its star “marks books of exceptional merit.” The key takeaway line is this: “A disturbing, […]
Jessica Chen Weiss, an Asian-American, tries to steer the U.S. away from confronting China
May 6, 2023
I realize this is explosive territory because Asian-Americans, particularly Chinese-Americans, fear getting caught up in the mounting U.S.-Chinese confrontation. Bad things, like the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II and the anti-Chinese laws of the late 19th Century, have unquestionably happened. But Jessica Chen Weiss, writing an essay in today’s New York Times, goes […]
America’s Software Crisis
May 5, 2023
This article, adapted from our new book Battlefield Cyber (pre-order here), has just appeared in Force Distance Times, a unique magazine and website oriented to the people who make things happen in American industry and technology. The U.S. software meltdown helps explain why China and Russia have been able to deeply penetrate thousands of American […]
In the great information war between democracies and dictatorships, whose side is Elon Musk on?
April 25, 2023
It appears he is favoring the dictatorships, according to two reports from the Associated Press. First, Dake Kang at the AP in Beijing reports this on Twitter: “Investigative ex-CCTV journalist Wang Zhi’an’s twitter account has been locked, for unclear reasons. Astonishing squelching of a independent, influential voice in the Chinese language media ecosystem. Wang Zhi’an […]
