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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 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 […]
President Biden Just Committed “Industrial Policy.” Will Anyone Object? Or Does It Point The Way to Counter China?
March 3, 2021
The United States has had a long and tangled debate about the term “industrial policy,” which is a codeword for asking, what is the proper relationship between the federal government and private industry? The Biden Administration has just exercised industrial policy in a most forceful manner. Officials reached out to the pharmacetical company Merck, which […]
An Important OPC Event on March 18–How Will Biden and Xijinping Handle the Taiwan issue?
February 25, 2021
I organized this event and will moderate. See details here.
