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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.
China’s Big Chill–A Second Piece of New Evidence
January 29, 2015
New Rules in China Upset Western Tech Companies By PAUL MOZUR JAN. 28, 2015 HONG KONG — The Chinese government has adopted new regulations requiring companies that sell computer equipment to Chinese banks to turn over secret source code, submit to invasive audits and build so-called back doors into hardware and software, according to […]
China Clamps Down Still Harder on Internet Access-New York Times
January 29, 2015
This article in the Times is one of two pieces of further evidence that the trends we documented at the OPC China Hands reunion are intensifying. By ANDREW JACOBS JAN. 29, 2015 BEIJING — Jing Yuechen, the founder of an Internet start-up here in the Chinese capital, has no interest in overthrowing the […]
An Important New Book on China
January 16, 2015
I worked on this project for much of 2014 and am delighted that it has resulted in the sixth book that I have written or edited. It’s important because it captures one of those historic moments in which we in the West recognize that we may have fundamentally misjudged China’s direction. The book is now […]
The Riddle of Backshoring
January 15, 2015
Everyone is preoccupied with terrorism at the moment, but this was a very important story in the Wall Street Journal yesterday. It seems that if we want American companies to bring home their manufacturing from China, we have to pay attention to the entire supply chain that they need to make their products on U.S. […]
How to Bite the ERP Bullet
January 15, 2015
Repost of author’s article from Chief Executive | January 9, 2015 by: William J. Holstein CEOs need to merge their disparate IT systems to keep growing—but must do so carefully. The cloud can help. WHEN JANNA RONERT, ORIGINALLY A FARM GIRL FROM NEBRASKA, founded Image Skin Care company 11 years ago in Palm Beach, Florida, […]
East Asia Watch: The Ideological Winds of China
January 6, 2015
Something is happening in China that I haven’t seen since I first started covering it in 1979, some 35 years ago. President Xi Jinping is either starting or encouraging the start of a Maoist-style ideological campaign against Western-inspired professors, journalists, intellectuals and others who advocate human rights or political pluralism. This is exactly what Mao […]
