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From Scooters to High Speed Rail, China is Electrifying

Plugs and Cars

When I was studying China and Mandarin Chinese 35 years ago, “Red” China was unrecognized by the US, literally, and dark in a way difficult to imagine now. Just as today we can look at a nighttime satellite image and see the black void that is recalcitrant, unelectrified North Korea, once that was China. China is electrifying.

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Why Cyberwarfare Is Overhyped

Cars That Think

There’s very, very little regulation on the automobile because the power of the United States was as an industrial behemoth, and the idea is like, “We don’t want to stop that.” That is, it doesn’t actually hack into Chinese companies, let’s say, and steal their blueprints. The same story was with the car.

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