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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.
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.
Is Artificial Intelligence Empowering the Hackers?
February 25, 2021
I would not ordinarily promote an advertisement, but this one from a company called DarkTrace, on an email to subscribers from the MIT Technology Review, is so alarming and revealing I feel compelled to share it. The Chinese and Russians must be using AI tools to attack American computer systems, as revealed by the SolarWinds […]
Myanmar Shapes Up As Fascinating Test Case of How China Suppresses Dissent–Everywhere
February 24, 2021
The NY Times has this top-notch piece today explaining how Chinese government-related entities may help Myanmar’s military rulers stiffle all dissent by helping to build Myanmar’s own version of China’s Great Firewall. It turns out that Huawei and ZTE built much of Myanmar’s telecommunications network. And surveillance cameras made by Huawei have gone up in […]
Biden Starts Showing Strong Leadership on China
February 24, 2021
This action of bringing together a bipartisan consensus to examine America’s supply chains of semiconductors, rare earths and other critical components does not seem to explicitly mention China. But it’s clear that this is an effort to reduce U.S. vulnerabilities to an increasingly assertive Chinese Communist Party and to make sure that a crucial industry–semiconductors–does […]
BusinessWeek Finds Persistent Pattern of Chinese Hacking Through SuperMicro
February 13, 2021
This article is hidden behind a pay wall but it is so important that I will provide a summary. Entitled “The Long Hack: How China Exploited a U.S. Tech Supplier,” the same two journalists who wrote “The Big Hack” in 2018, Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley, describe how what they earlier discovered was just a […]
