It’s one of the reasons we don’t operate Facebook, Instagram or our other services in China. I wanted our services in China because I believe in connecting the whole world and I thought we might help create a more open society. I worked hard to make this happen. But we could never come to agreement …
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Jeff Bezos driven by Star Trek but is driven to go through Washington. When reporters tracked down Bezos’s high-school girlfriend, she said, “The reason he’s earning so much money is to get to outer space.” This assessment hardly required a leap of imagination. As the valedictorian of Miami Palmetto Senior High School’s class of 1982, …
Chinese telecoms giant is stepping up pursuit of royalties and licensing fees as US restricts access to American markets and suppliers Huawei is currently engaged in negotiations or disputes with Verizon, Qualcomm and defence firm Harris Corp. South China Morning Post
The cans can no longer be kicked down the road as the realities of the 21st century overwhelm the politics of the 20th. New at the Belmont Club
The Kurds aren’t doomed to lose. New at the Belmont Club
Do the right thing, but do it in a bipartisan manner. New at the Belmont Club
It’s not clear how far Turkey will go. See map provided by NYT. But the lack of clarity is the problem. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/07/us/politics/trump-turkey-syria.html#click=https://t.co/A6JY7viPn4
My opinion piece at the Wall Street Journal on what lights up the soul. It’s a surprise.
Do you want to know why so many GOP candidates who looked good on paper fell so quickly during the 2016 primary? I'll tell you why: it's because primary voters could readily imagine the lovely, principled, dignified concession speeches they would give. — John Hayward (@Cobretata) October 1, 2019
Political leaders can miscalculate. At some point in the current American power struggle events can take on a life of their own. New At the Belmont Club
No one can afford to lose. New at the Belmont Club
September 11 is not an event in the past but a warning for the future New at the Belmont Club
Because we “know it already”. New at the Belmont Club
The Communist Party of China vs the Western elites. New at the Belmont Club
“I would never lie to you.” We’ll know the truth in the future. New at the Belmont Club
The “shock of confinement” makes the newly arrested more likely to commit suicide than the convicted. One reason why jails have a higher suicide rate (46 per 100,000 in 2013) than prisons (15 PER 100,0001) is that people who enter a jail often face a first-time “shock of confinement”; they are stripped of their job, …
In a society without external reference the question is not what is right or wrong but who has the most powerful social network. New at the Belmont Club
In 2010 I argued in The Ten Ships that al-Qaeda was not rooted in a place but in a transnational agenda with a system of support. Neutralize the intellectual appeal of radical Islam, topple the rogue regimes, and ease Western dependence on oil and you win the war. Yet their centrality, and even their existence …
Part of the problem with ongoing events in China and especially the protests in Hong Kong is that much of the crisis is internal to that country. The West, even the United States, has limited control over events. Complicating matters is that the US is wracked by its own internal conflicts. The legitimacy of American …
What drives mass killings outside of war — besides weapons? New at the Belmont Club I will describe how to extract data from online HTML tables on wretchard.com in some future post.
