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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.
U.S. Firm Alleges Huawei Forced It to Build a Backdoor Data Access System
August 14, 2021
It’s been widely assumed that once China’s Huawei builds a nation’s wireless telecommunications sytem and creates a “smart city” with hundreds of cameras monitoring many types of activity, the Chinese company has access to all that data. Now comes this suit by an American company regarding a smart city project in Pakistan. The story is […]
Chinese hackers can take over a nation’s entire telecoms system–by exploiting Microsoft’s Exchange servers
August 4, 2021
This article from Bloomberg is so good but is behind a reg wall, so I share it in full here: Chinese Hackers Compromised Telecom Firms, Researchers Say By Ryan Gallagher August 3, 2021, 12:01 AM EDT Updated on August 4, 2021, 6:57 AM EDT Chinese state-backed hacking groups compromised at least five global telecommunications companies and stole […]
State Department Shares OPC Concerns About China’s Treatment of Foreign Journalists
July 31, 2021
JULY 31, 2021 U.S. State Department Expresses Concern over China’s Treatment of Foreign Journalists Posted July 31, 2021 by OPC of America The deterioration in the treatment of foreign journalists in China has reached the point that it has triggered a statement of concern from the U.S. Department of State.The United States is deeply concerned with the increasingly harsh […]
Facebook Making $5 Billion For Sharing Chinese Propaganda
July 26, 2021
This story from the private The Wire newsletter deserves broad circulation: Facebook’s Super Spreaders What message is Beijing trying to send? BY KATRINA NORTHROP — JULY 25, 2021 Illustration by Taylor Callery Last Friday afternoon, just as President Joe Biden was boarding Marine One for a weekend at Camp David, a reporter yelled out a question: “On Covid […]
The Sale of a British Semiconductor Factory, Wafer Fab, to a Chinese company should be blocked
July 25, 2021
From the Telegraph via Yahoo, this article describes how Boris Johnson’s government may allow the sale of Britain’s largest semiconductor manufacturing facility, Wafer Fab, to a Chinese company operating through a Dutch subsidiary. This is absolute madness and reflects the failure of the Western capitalistic system to respond to China’s strategic challenge. If an entity is […]
The world has not yet witnessed China’s full cyber power
July 23, 2021
The world has not yet witnessed China’s full cyber power Analysts who are paying attention realize that China has reached near-parity or absolute advantage in some areas of communications and computing with the United States. They were first, for example, to develop 5G wireless telecommunications technology and the United States still does not have it. […]
