China’s Strategy

Facing another U.S. tariff hike, Chinese President Xi Jinping is getting tougher with Washington instead of backing down. Beijing fired what economists called a "warning shot" at Washington by letting its yuan currency weaken in response to President Donald T…

The current tariff war between the USA and China has its roots in the fact that for decades we have allowed China unrestricted access to our markets.  They took full advantage of this to develop themselves into the second most important economy in th…

BEIJING (AP) Facing another U.S. tariff hike, Chinese President Xi Jinping is getting tougher with Washington instead of backing down. Beijing fired what economists called a "warning shot" at Washington by letting its yuan currency weaken in response to Pres…

BEIJING (AP) Facing another U.S. tariff hike, Chinese President Xi Jinping is getting tougher with Washington instead of backing down. Beijing fired what economists called a “warning shot” at Washington by letting its yuan currency weaken in response to Pres…

The Navys biannual Pacific Rim naval exercise (or RIMPAC) is the Met Ball of naval warfare: Every two years, dozens of advanced warships and aircraft from over twenty nations in good standing with Washington flock to Hawaii to participate in weeks of naval ex…

Marine Corps Postmortem Dave Pinion On February 8th 2040, Congress passed a law that abolished and dissolved the United States Marine Corps and merged its personnel and assets into the Army, Navy and Air Force.  It should not have come as a surprise to anyo…

Google's AI company has racked up debts of more than £1bn as it fights for preeminence in artificial intelligence research and development.  DeepMind's spending has risen as parent company Alphabet, which also owns Google, hires top academics, researchers an…

Editor’s note: John Strand is head of London-based Strand Consult, a telecommunications and technology consulting firm. LONDON – It is well known that the Chinese government has the country on lockdown: people are monitored 24/7 with millions of CCTV cameras…

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