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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.
Hong Kong: An Insider’s View
November 20, 2020
From my one-time protege at Business Week, a most authoritative view of what is happening inside Hong Kong. The Chinese strategy is clearly to use business and economic incentives to overwhelm any political opposition or resistance.
Have We Started a Tech Disengagement with China?
November 16, 2020
It seems we are headed down the slippery slope of a technology dis-engagement between the United States and China. If you add up all the threads, it seems both governments are organizing themselves to prevent each other’s companies and enterprises from sharing too much technology or too much investment. The logic seems so powerful that […]
ChinaFile Offers Smashing New Insights on How China Surveils Its Own People
November 2, 2020
My key question is, if this is the pattern they have established at home, are they using the same techniques and methodologies internationally? The Communist Party’s doctrine seems to have evolved to the point that not only is the party completely dominant inside China, but it also has the right to assert its supremacy globally. […]
Will America Get Serious About Reshoring?
October 20, 2020
October 2020 E-News: Commerce Department Requests More Reshoring from China, Reshoring Initiative Responds Inbox Reshoring Initiative <reshore@mail.gardnerweb.com> Unsubscribe 8:15 AM (3 hours ago) to me October 2020 View Online | Unsubscribe | Subscribe October 2020 E-News: Commerce Department Requests More Reshoring from China, Reshoring Initiative Responds Investment Advisory Council (IAC) of the U.S. Department of Commerce The IAC met on September 10, 2020, […]
Important New Report on China and the U.S. in Artificial Intelligence
October 17, 2020
Few subjects are as important as the race to integrate Artificial Intelligence into human decision-making. It has clear geopolitical and military significance because the country that can do it first will obtain enormous advantages over other countries, both in monitoring and analyzing their IT systems and also in prevailing militarily without necessarily firing a shot. […]
An Important New Book on Turkey
October 13, 2020
It took my old pal, Thomas Goltz, 40 years to write this book entitled The Bridge but at last it’s out, seen here. I have written an introduction. I’m certainly no area specialist, having been to Istanbul only once, but Turkey is clearly on the move–in Libya, in eastern Mediterranean waters claimed by Greece, in […]
