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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.
China is conducting massive surveillance of ASEAN
March 3, 2023
This is how China treats its friends and neighbors.
The propaganda battle: Are American concerns about China “overblown?”
March 1, 2023
As a student of information and propaganda, I’m hearing a rising chorus of voices arguing that American worries about China’s technology-based drive for global dominance are “overblown.” This comes as the special House committee starts its deliberations. The timing is conspicuous. First is Jonah Goldberg, a conservative syndicated columnist writing in the Los Angeles Times […]
America’s Venture Capitalists are Investing in Chinese AI
February 16, 2023
The Center for Security and Emerging Technology has done it again–they have come up with break-through research on a highly sensitive U.S.-Chinese technology issue. In this case (report can be seen here). It turns out that U.S. venture capitalists are investing heavily in Chinese AI start-ups. Some 37 percent of all AI investments in China […]
Apple Tries to Shift Out of China? Too little, too late?
February 16, 2023
Quartz is reporting that Apple’s main factory contractor, FoxConn, is about to invest $300 million in Vietnam in an effort to reduce Apple’s dependency on China as a manufacturing platform. Apple has waited too long. The Chinese almost certainly will find ways to retaliate against Apple and they have dozens of ways to do it–supply […]
Did China figure out a way to fool America’s defenses?
February 13, 2023
There’s much gnashing of teeth about why so little is known about the three objects that have been shot down over the United States and Canada since a Chinese spy balloon was destroyed in the Atlantic Ocean. I suspect the answer is that the Chinese figured out a way to exploit “near space,” an area […]
The biggest obstacle to Biden’s efforts to limit China tech? American CEOs
February 10, 2023
As a result of the spy balloon incident, it’s increasingly clear that the Biden Administration is going to rachet up its efforts to choke off the supply of advanced American technologies to China, as per this article in today’s New York Times. One lawyer is quoted as saying: “Industry is kind of united. We don’t […]
