Lawyer, author; co-chair, Asian Affairs Comm, NYC Bar; former board member, Shanghai Foreign Correspondents Club; youth basketball and track coach
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China's AI capabilities alone means it would be the paramount leader of America's adversaries.
China's exports to Zimbabwe are up 130% in the first four months of 2026 versus 2024. This is how China survived the US tariff shock. It unloaded all the stuff it couldn't sell to the US on small, often impoverished countries who can't afford this stuff...
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The Economist got the headline right.
I love the hope this represents. We will never forget June 4th and the power of Hong Kong to commemorate!
Other than treating the U.S. capital market as their own, I’d recommend that open-minded young Chinese co-opt the Japanese national soccer team, and the World Cup, even soccer in general, would go from depressing to exciting.
At the start of the hottest Japanese show on Netflix right now, the young protagonist, suffering the aftermath of the Pacific War, complained about older men who “couldn’t win a war they started, and didn’t know how to finish it”.
Photos of June 6 ‘19 popped up on my phone. Here thousands of lawyers gathered outside Hong Kong Court of Final Appeals for the silent march to govt HQ to request a pause of the extradition (of suspects to Mainland China) bill, which was being rammed through the legislature. Crackdowns followed.
A classic case of two things being true at the same time -- China is innovative (all humans are; more so in a Confucius society which traditionally values education), and its economy is messy (as in all Soviet states in history). www.economist.com/finance-and-...
The declining new car sales in China, is a side effect of its property crisis which in turn is due to its demographic nosedive and sharp ideological turn. The growing trade war w Europe will add to Beijing’s anxiety that the stuck-up West is trying to “keep China down”. apnews.com/article/chin...
