Analysis
Monday, December 5th 2022 / Monday, December 5th 2022
Kathryn Joyce Salon, Nov. 21, 2022 “Republicans’ disappointed hopes in the midterms are fueling an intellectual civil war over the future of the American right.” On a Friday night in early October, in a downtrodden city in eastern Ohio, a speaker laid out a grim vision. At the height of 2020’s first, most terrifying […]
B. Duncan Moench Tablet, Nov. 29, 2022 “There’s nothing sacred about 50-state America.” All national declines ebb and flow. The street violence and chaos of the summer of 2020 marked the moment the curtain was pulled back, the country’s true psychic state revealed for a single season before the curtain fell once more — […]
Friday, December 2nd 2022 / Friday, December 2nd 2022
Jonathan Frenkel Israel 21C, Sept. 8, 2020 “Sadly, anti-Semitism has also thrived on TikTok” As is the case with social media, the tide ebbs and flows when the newest application reaches the hands of digital natives. Facebook made way for Snap and Instagram, and now Instagram is yielding to the latest social media giant out of […]
Adonis Hoffman The Hill, Oct. 18, 2022 “As the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Congress and the Justice Department continue to scrutinize Big Tech leaders including Facebook, Google and Amazon, they should not lose sight of the serious national security issues presented by TikTok, especially during election season.” People are easy to dupe. Give us something […]
Emily Baker-White Forbes, Nov. 28, 2022 “At this time, TikTok has failed to provide the requested information, documents, and communications,” he said in an email. TikTok spokesperson Maureen Shanahan confirmed that TikTok received Rep. Comer’s request and said the company plans to respond.” In fall 2021, members of ByteDance’s internal audit and risk control team prepared an urgent message […]
Sara Morrison VOX, Nov. 14, 2022 “The Chinese government has established clear pathways to empower itself to surveil individuals, to gather data from corporations, and through the 2017 [National Intelligence] law, to aggregate that data on government servers.” Here’s something you rarely hear a Democratic senator say: “Donald Trump was right.” But that’s what […]
Thursday, December 1st 2022 / Thursday, December 1st 2022
Chen Guangcheng WSJ, Nov. 25, 2022 “Unfortunately, U.S. leaders from both political parties have given the party the legitimacy it craves.” “What does the Chinese Communist Party fear most?” Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asked me this question during a private meeting in Washington in January. Having been persecuted by Beijing for more than seven […]
Ilai Z. Saltzman Jerusalem Post, Oct. 7, 2022 “Israel’s role in China’s economic and military rise in support of Beijing’s regional or global aspirations, albeit considerably modest as well as indirect, is something with which the US is growingly uncomfortable.” The first meeting of the United States-Israel Strategic High-Level Dialogue on Technology took place […]
Alastair Gale WSJ, Oct. 20, 2022 “We are observing an increasing complexity and sophistication in how they are performing in exercises.” China’s military is emerging as a true competitor to the U.S. under Xi Jinping. The People’s Liberation Army now has hypersonic missiles that evade most defenses, a technology the U.S. is still developing. Its […]
David P. Goldman Tablet, Oct. 20, 2022 “China is utterly unlike the United States, and it is difficult to make sense of the difference without knowing the country and its history.” An Empire of Emperors: What Is China, and Why You Should Worry About It Lyndon Johnson apocryphally told Israeli Prime Minister Golda […]
Tuesday, November 29th 2022 / Tuesday, November 29th 2022
Dan Shueftan Tablet, Nov. 28, 2022 “Arabs fully realize the magnitude of the Iranian determination to hegemonize the Middle East at their expense and the effectiveness of Iranian brutality and sophistication in the pursuit of that objective.” Despite what most Western readers have long been conditioned to assume, the Middle East and Arab-Israeli relations […]
Ze’ev Khanin Wilson Center, Nov. 3, 2022 “Iran wants to “take revenge” on Israel and to “warn” other regional actors from entering into a strategic partnership with Israel by inflicting maximum damage on Azerbaijan as a key ally of the Jewish state.” From the start, the Russian invasion of Ukraine instantly went beyond the level […]
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