From Toshiba to Huawei: America’s Long War on Superior Competitors For decades, the United States championed free markets and fair competition—until it no longer had the upper hand. Today, oligarchs like Peter Thiel—a key player in the U.S. security apparatus and founder of Palantir, the taxpayer-funded surveillance and profiling giant built with CIA backing—say competition […] The post How a Private Company Won the War Waged on It by the Mightiest State: Huawei’s Secret Comeback ...| CovertAction Magazine
With Communist China’s announcement last week of an intention to impose sweeping new controls on the export and use of its “rare earth” and other critical materials, Beijing is manifestly waging economic war not just on us, but the whole world. In a somber press conference with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in Washington on Wednesday, Trade Representative Jamison Greer declared: “China’s announcement is nothing more than a global supply chain power-grab….It is an exercise in ec...| Committee on the Present Danger: China
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