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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.
New York Times Compares Beijing Winter Olympics with Hitler’s 1936 Olympics
December 3, 2021
I’ve been hearing the human rights crowd calling the Winter Games in Beijing in February the “genocide games” because the world seems to be celebrating the brutal regime of Xi Jinping. But the mainstream media has largely avoided the unpleasant comparison between Beijing 2022 and Hitler’s 1936 Olympics in Germany. Now, however, the New York […]
Chinese Government is Openly Telling U.S. Companies to lobby on its behalf
December 2, 2021
With great drama playing out over whether the world will stage diplomatic boycotts of the Winter Games in February and whether tennis star Peng Shuai will be allowed to emerge from isolation, the Chinese government is openly telling American companies they should lobby the U.S. government to not take any steps that would hurt the […]
The stark divide in thinking about China between American CEOs and the intelligence/military/security world.
November 19, 2021
Why is there such a gap in the thinking of American CEOs vs. the thinking of the American intelligence, security and military leadership when it comes to China? To help understand the gap in thinking, let me explain […]
NSA, CISA Warn That Cloud Computing May Not Be as Safe as Widely Proclaimed
November 5, 2021
Companies such as IBM, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Oracle, Google and others have made billions of dollars by persuading their corporate customers to migrate their computing functions (meaning data as well as software on demand) to “the cloud.” The cloud allows the big IT providers to manage a company’s IT systems, either offsite or onsite […]
Here comes the People’s Liberation Army
November 1, 2021
Is the U.S. military really just now waking up to the Chinese challenge as this AP article suggests? Xi Jinping has been working on this for years. What the article does not even mention: –The Chinese have deeply penetrated the Pentagon’s IT systems, stealing details about weapon systems and even uniforms. See my two books, The […]
Kicking out China Telecom Is Positive. Now what about Zoom and TikTok?
October 26, 2021
The Federal Communications Commission today gave China Telecom 60 days to shut down its operations in the United States. It acted because of an increasingly strong consensus in the U.S. that every Chinese company that touches American data is using it against the interests of the United States. It’s the same reason the Trump Administration […]
