There are already flying taxis in China. There’s drone delivery of meals too. About the leaps taking place in China, some will say we need to catch up. Others will say that in addition to catching up, we need to keep advances hatched in China out of the U.S. They would be incorrect, twice. […]
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“We thought Grease was going to be a disaster.” That’s how Barry Diller bluntly puts it in his memoirs (Who Knew) about one of the many blockbuster films that Paramount Pictures released during his tenure as CEO. When it comes to audience tastes, it’s frequently true that no one knows. All of this is worth remembering
If Xi Jinping Is All-Powerful, Then Why Do We Fear China? Read More »
The problem with economics is the economists. They arguably understand what powers economic growth the least. Consider “World Pays a Price for China’s Growth,” the latest piece by Wall Street Journal columnist Greg Ip. In it, the non-economist (that’s not a knock on him) in Ip wrote that “Even as the U.S. rolls out tariffs, its imports are
If the Chinese Are Producing, the World Is Growing Read More »
In his recently released memoir, Born To Be Wired, John Malone writes of attending the 1979 Western Show out in Anaheim, CA. What the TCI CEO witnessed fascinated him, but also terrified him. It was a proliferation of television stations sprouting up to meet the needs of a still small, but growing cable TV subscriber
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The U.S. could be 100% bereft of “rare earths” while at war with and embargoed by rare earth rich China, but we’d still have all the rare earths we want stateside, and as though they were all sourced here. It’s simple because economics is simple. To see why all the rare earth hysteria is
Short of Hoarding, China Can’t Keep ‘Rare Earths’ Out of the U.S. Read More »
Speaking recently at a reception after Nvidia’s Global Technology Conference in Washington, DC, Jensen Huang energetically made a case for economic interconnectedness with China. U.S. universities loom large in Huang’s optimistic plan to continue attracting China’s best and brightest. In the words of Huang, “They’re just Chinese. They want to come here to develop.”
Jensen Huang and Donald Trump Are Correct About Chinese Students Read More »
“Chinese companies are pushing across the globe to conquer new markets, and U.S. financiers are making a mint by helping them.” That’s how the Wall Street Journal’s Rory Jones reported it in a recent front-page article from the newspaper… Continue reading on Forbes.
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Rubber was oil before oil. As Edmund Morris wrote in his biography of Thomas Edison, in the early parts of the 20th century rubber was arguably the most coveted industrial input in the world. In Morris’s words, “What petroleum would one day be to developed nations, rubber presently was: a raw material essential enough to
No Matter What, China’s “Rare Earths” Will Flow to the United States Read More »
As reported in The Deficit Delusion, Sam Altman and other Silicon Valley giants are in the midst of a bet. It concerns not if, but when the first one-man “unicorn” will reveal itself. Altman and friends’ wager is useful to keep in mind as demographic experts promote the narrative that China faces a troubled economic future
The China and U.S. Birthrate “Crisis” Is Much Ado About Nothing Read More »
The warning from Sen. James E. Risch (R-Idaho) was blunt: “China’s control of TikTok poses one of the greatest threats to Americans’ health, privacy, and safety. Our kids and grandkids are particularly vulnerable to falling under the manipulation of the Chinese Communist Party…” Continue reading at The Washington Post.
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