As North Korea's enfant terrible Kim Jong-un continues to rattle nerves from Seoul and Tokyo to Wall Street and Washington, its useful to understand these essential truths about the latest in a long line of Korean peninsula crises.

For starters, North Korea's latest threat takes it place in a long...

Finally, there appears to be real alarm in the White House over Chinese cyberattacks. The president recently summoned top corporate leaders to the White House to discuss this growing threat even as he dispatched newly appointed Treasury Secretary Jack Lew to confront his counterparts in Beijing. Here's what the president...

China's real estate bubble is very real. It is driven by both private speculators and government development; and it is both a coastal and inland phenomenon.

Private speculators have treated real estate in China like a Pai Gow table in Macao.
Buyers go to pawn shops for capital. Interest...

China's recent acquisition of Michigan battery maker A123 represents yet another step in Beijing's well-orchestrated strategy to surpass the U.S. as both an economic and military power. That's why the biggest mistake we can make is to look at this deal in isolation rather than as part of...

Written by Greg Autry

I'm going to take a little (very little) victory lap here. Several times in this space, I've suggested that Apple needs to move manufacturing back home. Each time I've gotten comments like "that's not going to happen" or "they will just move to...

I had the enjoyable opportunity of leading a delegation of academics to Taiwan last week, courtesy of the ROC government. During my stay in Taipei, I noticed an autographed picture of former President Ford among the notables decorating the wall in the Landis hotel restaurant. Ford, like a lot of...

While most of us think of the October 4, 1957 launch of Sputnik as beginning of the space age, this week is actually marks the 70th anniversary of the spaceflight. The first manmade object to pass the Karman line -- the 100km boundary that separates spacecraft from aircraft -- was...

What to know why President Obama has just gone on the offensive on China trade policy? See the results of this just released Zogby poll commissioned by Death By China Productions. The poll shows Obama faces a huge "soft on China" gap relative to Mitt Romney in the...

Fast upon the heels of the news that Chinese rights activist, Chen Guangcheng was given the bum's rush by the U.S. Embassy and State Department comes the horrifying report that Chinese firms have been producing and exporting virility pills made from human fetuses. There's a gruesome...

General Motors announced this week that it will start building the Cadillac XTS, CTS and ATX in China in an attempt to keep up with the insatiable demand for luxury consumption by that nation's nominally Marxist elite. It seems that Communist Party princelings and their crony capitalist clients...

From the moment I heard the outrageous claims made by Mike Daisey against Foxconn, Apple's manufacturing partner in China, on the January 6 episode of This American Life, I figured the fellow as an entertainer not a journalist; I just never expected how truly pathetic he would turn...

While Nightline's Bill Weir is busy patting himself on the back for being the first to publicly report from inside Apple's iSweatShop in Shenzhen, China, he really needs to understand just how bad he blew that story. Memo to Bill and Nightline:

You cannot really talk about...

By Greg Autry

Now that it's over, it seems to me that the most interesting thing about the GOP primary in Florida was seeing America's beleaguered space program getting some political attention. Predictably, Newt Gingrich's bold visions of moon bases and resurgent American daring-do in space were viewed like a...

When Congress forced the Obama administration to stop dithering on its decision to support the Keystone XL Pipeline, it revealed a White House's determined to cleave to ideology in the face of all common sense.

The Pipeline extension would bring the output of messy Canadian oil sands...

There were a lot of similarities between Jon Huntsman and Mitt Romney. The two moderate Republicans were not just the only Mormon candidates on the ballot, but they often seemed to be the only adults in the room at the Republican debates. Immediately after the rumors of his withdrawal from...

The Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act, informally known as the Currency Bill, received a great deal of attention in the media a few weeks back. Passed by the Senate, the bill was a solid piece of legislation aimed squarely at the most destructive of China's many abusive trade policies....

Last week, I took a film crew down to the Occupy Wall Street site in New York City. I'm working on a documentary about the impact of China on the American economy; and I wanted to find out just how many of the protesters could connect the dots between the...

America's official unemployment rate remains stubbornly near 10%, the real unemployment rate is likely well north of 20% and neither the president nor any of the major presidential challengers appear to understand this essential truth: Our malaise is NOT simply a short term cyclical problem amenable to (even) more profligate...

On September 16, Carl Levin joined fellow Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow in calling for an investigation into the strong-arm tactics China uses to force American firms into technology transfers. Levin, a Democrat, has often been less than forceful in dealing with China. The Senator supported permanent Most Favored...

In 1981 I was the long haired, 18-year-old co-founder of a video game startup exhibiting our wares at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco. The geek crowd's big social objective for the weekend was to impress "Woz", the legendary designer of the Apple II computer that made our...