Address by Dan McGroarty, TES GeoPolicy Editor Human history has been defined by our ability to obtain and use minerals, from the Stone Age, Copper Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age, to the Industrial Revolution (steel and coal) to the Jet Age (aluminum and […]
Tag: technology
Tackle climate change with tax cuts for innovation (not new taxes on carbon)
As with so many other important and controversial subjects, the left has laid claim to climate change lock, stock and barrel, claiming that only massive government intervention in the form of new taxes, profligate spending and rampant regulation can address the underlying causes […]
With All Eyes On Crypto, Let’s Get Smart On Regulation
By George Nethercutt, Jr., former U.S. Representative (WA 5th) One of the biggest names in tech could be on a path toward entering the cryptocurrency space. At a recent event, Apple Pay vice president Jennifer Bailey related, “We’re watching cryptocurrency. [. . .] We think it […]
America’s Patent Court Needs a Course Correction
By Nicholas A. Gravante Jr. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit was created in 1982 to hear appeals in all cases involving patents, trademarks and copyrights. It is, simply put, the nation’s intellectual property court. Unfortunately, it is […]
Europe will become even more polarized in downturn
The European Union was supposed to speed up the process of convergence between the continent’s high- and low-income countries, but by many measures the continent has actually become more polarized along regional, economic lines – and this trend is only going to be exacerbated […]
Beware Chinese Bearing Wicked Fast Streaming 5G
By Dan McGroarty, TES GeoPolicy Editor With China’s October 1 celebrations of the 70thAnniversary of the Communist Party’s rise to power just hours away, make time for this Gordon Chang must-read, from the Gatestone Institute: Huawei Wants the World’s Next Trojan Horse to Be Chinese. […]
Kremlins In the System: Russia is betting big on AI
A few years after Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that whoever leads in artificial intelligence will “dominate the world,” Russia appears to be making a bid to do just that, with the creation of a formidable research apparatus drawing on leading technical experts from […]
Keeping America Great with a Space Force
By Mona Salama, TES Contributor President Trump has launched a full-fledged Space Command that will rise to the challenge of defending and preserving U.S. dominance in space — but only if Congress approves it. Democrat lawmakers need to support the President’s proposal and stop […]
TES Weekly Update: America needs a Space Force with teeth
Like it or not, space is already being militarized For those of us old enough to remember the Cold War — ah, simpler times, when all we had to worry about was the horrifyingly real possibility of nuclear annihilation at any moment without warning — the idea of the United States creating a real […]
China must focus finance on small business
The words “Chinese companies” summon images of sprawling tech giants or vast state-owned enterprises, but like most other countries a large share of China’s economy is composed of small businesses — but this critical if unsung economic sector is marginal at best in the […]