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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.
Important article in NewYorkTimes on China
July 23, 2019
This article by Ana Swanson, which appeared on the front page of the Times on Sunday (in the middle of summer), was one of the most important pieces the Times has done on the China issue. The headline in the print edition was, “Red Scare Grows in Washington, Now With China as Boogeyman.” Let’s parse […]
More Chinese Stealing of U.S. Military Technology
July 12, 2019
The news just keeps getting worse about China’s theft of American technology. Now comes this story in the Los Angeles Times. An adjunct professor at UCLA conspired to buy types of highly specialized semiconductors that the American military uses to help identify targets, among other purposes, and ship them to China. He apparently was able to […]
The Intellectual Struggle In America’s China Debate
July 11, 2019
A group of prominent Americans active in U.S. policy toward China wrote this oped in the Washington Post on July 3, a date guaranteeing that the vast majority of Americans will never see it. Among them was Stapleton Roy, who was the acting ambassador to China when I was based in Beijing in 1981-82 for […]
How China Is Stealing Tesla Blind
July 10, 2019
While U.S. officials debate ways to license the sale of certain technologies to Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, massive amounts of technology continue to flow out of U.S. technology companies through illegal means. The latest case in point is Tesla. The news broke in March after I had completed “The New Art of War: China’s Deep […]
Important Article in New York Times on Huawei’s 5G
July 2, 2019
At last, someone at the New York Times is beginning to ask the right questions. In this article, Andrew Ross Sorkin, who usually writes about the glam world of finance, notes that the United States is “woefully–even disgracefully–behind” Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant that has been in the news. I have been arguing that the […]
Four Key Takeaways From The Trump-Xi Meeting
July 1, 2019
The first takeaway is that the uncertainty facing companies doing business in or with China continues. Trump may or may not follow through on tariffs on $300 billion worth of goods from China. That means business people will have to make decisions about where to source and where to manufacture with major question marks hanging […]
