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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.
Toward an “integrated” strategy on China
September 13, 2019
The Democratic presidential hopefuls did not display great sophistication about China in last night’s debate. Joe Biden was right in saying that we need to have real allies who cooperate with us in identifying Chinese practices that we must oppose. But other candidates seemed to think that a “deal” could be struck with Beijing that […]
China’s Propaganda Machine Is Trying to Shape American Opinion on Hong Kong
September 11, 2019
I’m getting pop-up ads on my laptop containing video footage from Chinese government television. This most recent one, on YouTube, is clearly marked as being paid for by the Chinese government, but it is nonetheless striking that the government has reached this point of sophistication and is obviously spending heavily to distribute this kind of […]
A Study on Confucius Institutes Concurs They Are a Problem
September 2, 2019
I’ve just been made aware of this research by the National Association of Scholars into the existence of roughly 100 Confucius Institutes at American universities. There are hundreds more at the high school level. Their research conclusions align with the Chinese Influence, American Interests report by Orville Schell and the Hoover Institute at Stanford University. […]
Can China’s Global Strategy Be Stopped? My comments
September 2, 2019
Here’s what I had to say at a gathering of students and young activists from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Taiwan. I tried to establish that all of us, and others, are on the receiving end of a variety of tools that the Chinese party-state is using around the world. We have common ground.
Hong Kong as a defining issue in U.S.-Chinese relations
August 23, 2019
Thomas Wright from Brookings has nailed it in this piece. President Trump is facing his first foreign policy crisis and it centers on Hong Kong. If President Xi Jinping uses force against the protesters, what will America do? How will it affect overall U.S.-China relations?
We need a new intellectual and policy framework to confront China–My Bloomberg Radio interview
August 23, 2019
I had a stimulating 10-minute interview with Bloomberg Radio yesterday. Listen here. It’s in podcast form. I argued that our debate about China has been polarized, as many other issues have been (and perhaps the majority of issues.) On the one hand, we have the Steve Bannons and Peter Navarros arguing that China is “the […]
