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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.
An insight into how Chinese APT’s develop cyberhacking tools
June 4, 2021
This article in Security Week offers a fascinating glimpse into how China’s Advanced Persistent Threat groups develop the most sophisticated tools to penetrate the world’s IT systems. We are essentially defenseless against these attacks because our companies refuse to invest the money and human resources necessary to safeguard our systems. Governments alone cannot do it.
Reshoring of American Jobs Increased During Pandemic
June 1, 2021
Reshoring Initiative® 2020 Data Report: Two Milestones: Reshoring Surges to Record High. Cumulative Jobs Announced Surpasses 1 Million Sarasota, FL, June 1, 2021 — Despite COVID, reshoring numbers were up in 2020. Reshoring and foreign direct investment (FDI) job announcements for 2020 were 160,649, bringing the total jobs announced since 2010 to over 1 million (1,057,054). Also of significant importance: […]
AsiaTimes Publishes an Open Letter to Joe Biden’s New Cyber Czar
May 28, 2021
I co-authored the letter with Steve Soble of Assured Enterprises, who has been tracking China and technology issues as long as I have been.
The dream of a global unfettered Internet is dying
May 27, 2021
When the Internet first started taking root, many enthusiasts including myself thought it would become a great connector of people around the world. It would build mutual understanding and maybe even foster peace. How incredibly naive, as we are now discovering. The latest news from The New York Times is that Russia is cracking down on […]
How China Manipulates the United Nations System
May 26, 2021
We’ve just witnessed how China influences the World Health Organization as it sought to investigate the origins of Covid-19. But that is just a piece of the broader pattern, as this report from Gateway House in Mumbai has concluded. China is, for example, trying to manipulate the U.N. agency in charge of international telecommunications standards […]
