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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 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 […]
VP Debate: Incoherence on China
October 8, 2020
The interviewer, Susan Page, asked a brilliant question last night–how would you define the U.S. relationship with China? Neither candidate could provide a coherent answer, as the transcript below shows. The central challenge we face, as I argued in The New Art of War and other places, is to recognize the nature of the conflict […]
China’s GNC deal must be stopped
October 7, 2020
Marco Rubio is right–the U.S. government should block the sale of GNC, the struggling health supplement chain, because China will obtain millions of health records of Americans. Different Chinese entities already have stolen massive amounts of information about American’s credit ratings, their travel patterns and their health care information. And we know that some Chinese […]
The first report on how China is using our data
September 26, 2020
I’m surprised this story in Britain’s Guardian hasn’t made headlines in the United States, at least not yet. This is the first credible story suggesting that companies linked to China’s Ministry of State Security are scraping websites for personal details about prominent Americans and other nationalities and compiling dossiers on them. Some 52,000 Americans are said […]
Chinese Diplomats Penetrating the NYPD–Perfectly Consistent Behavior
September 22, 2020
China’s propaganda masters are dismissing the report in the New York Times that Chinese diplomats penetrated the New York Police Department to spy on Tibetan communites in the New York area. But it is perfectly consistent with other behaviors of Chinese diplomats in the United States. In fact, I spent an entire chapter in The […]
The TikTok Farce: China Is Still in Control
September 21, 2020
Judging by what the morning newspapers are reporting, the Trump Administration has completely failed to address the core issue involving TikTok: the Chinese parent company Byte Dance, and by implication the Chinese government, will retain control of the AI-powered algorithmns that thrill teenagers as well as the data the app collects about those users. The […]
