Xi Jinping Is Way More Powerful than Mao Ever Was
Reading the flood of commentary about the major Communist Party gathering in Beijing, I keep seeing the point being made by highly intelligent analysts that Xi Jinping is now China’s most powerful...
View ArticleThe financial and business takeaways from Xi’s 20th Communist Party Congress
As the dust settles from this big meeting, there are two major takeaways for the American financial and business audience. First, the idea that one can invest money in a Chinese entity, expect that it...
View ArticleThe Greatest Industrial Policy Experiment in History–How to Make it Work
It’s gradually sinking in that the Biden Administration has launched perhaps the greatest industrial policy experiment in history–stopping China from assuming technological leadership over the United...
View ArticleMy take on the Xi-Biden Meeting–Just Buying Time
Having covered Chinese leaders since the days of Deng Xiaoping, the line of analysis I find most interesting about the meeting in Bali is that Xi Jinping wanted to buy a little more time in China’s...
View ArticleWatch this New York Times Discussion of Surveillance in China, with me...
When Wednesday, November 30, 2022 from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM EST Add to Calendar Where This is an online event. Contact Overseas Press Club of America Overseas Press Club of America info@opcofamerica.org...
View ArticleMy conversation with two New York Times reporters on China’s surveillance state
VIDEO: ‘How I Did It’ – New York Times Journalists Share Insight About Reporting on China Surveillance The post My conversation with two New York Times reporters on China’s surveillance state appeared...
View ArticleThe new strategic cooperation with Japan is hugely important
The foreign and defense ministers of Japan and the United States have signalled, even as Prime Minister Kishida was meeting President Biden, that a major shift in Japanese strategy in countering China...
View ArticleThe media/New York Times seem to have decided China is now weak. Don’t buy it.
There’s a burst of media coverage today about China’s problems–its deaths exceeded births last year, here, under the headline: “Why China’s Shrinking Population is Cause for Alarm.” And its population...
View ArticleThe biggest obstacle to Biden’s efforts to limit China tech? American CEOs
As a result of the spy balloon incident, it’s increasingly clear that the Biden Administration is going to rachet up its efforts to choke off the supply of advanced American technologies to China, as...
View ArticleDid China figure out a way to fool America’s defenses?
There’s much gnashing of teeth about why so little is known about the three objects that have been shot down over the United States and Canada since a Chinese spy balloon was destroyed in the Atlantic...
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