Winter 2022 / Volume VI, Number 4 by Geoffrey Cain Once a technology star, Zhao Weiguo rose fast and fell hard. For the last eight years, Zhao’s semiconductor manufacturer, the Tsinghua Unigroup, had fanfare, ambition, large-scale state backing, and an...
TikTok is a national security threat. By Geoffrey Cain November 16, 2022 Visitors visit the booth of Douyin (Tiktok) at the 2019 Smart Expo in Hangzhou, China. (Costfoto/Future Publishing via Getty Images) The midterm elections of 2022 were many things—a shocker...
Supply-chain issues are about more than keeping shelves stocked. ‘The American spirit,’ the authors remind us, ‘is about controlling one’s destiny.’ By Geoffrey Cain Oct. 12, 2022 (PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES) After many grueling nights designing and building a car...
Social Media’s Impact on Homeland Security Geoffrey Cain, Senior Fellow for Critical Emerging Technologies, Lincoln Network September 14, 2022 Chairman Peters, Ranking Member Portman, and Members of the Committee:It is an honor to be invited to testify here on social...
State-owned companies have bought many acres near U.S. military bases. What is Beijing up to? By Lars Erik Schönander and Geoffrey Cain Wall Street Journal September 8, 2022 Workers sort cuts of fresh pork in a processing plant in Zhengzhou, China, Nov. 24,...
by Geoffrey Cain Summer 2022/Volume VI, Number 2 Before he was actually president, Volodymyr Zelensky, a comedian, starred as Ukraine’s fictional president in his three-season political satire Servant of the People. He played a junior high teacher who asked his...