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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.
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 […]
China’s Surveillance of The World
January 19, 2021
I missed this report from Brookings last year. China pal Jocelyn Ford alerted me to it. You can see it here. But this map tells the story:
Department of Homeland Security Picks Up on Article in National Interest to Issue Warning About Chinese IT penetration
January 15, 2021
Apparently in reaction to the article that Mike McLaughlin and I wrote for the National Interest, seen here, The Hill is reporting that the Department of Homeland Security has issued a warning about precisely what we wrote about–the Chinese government is requiring foreign companies that operate in China to make their systems completely open to […]
The Crisis Facing America’s IT Systems
January 4, 2021
The apparent attack by Russia’s S.V.R. intelligence service on America’s computer systems establishes beyond a shadow of a doubt that the United States faces a computerized crisis of major proportions. The private sector and many government agencies have declined to spend the money and hire the personnel to make their systems secure. The private sector […]
