Tag: china
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Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century by Josh Rogin
This is pitched as a Trump Book – and while the incompetence of Trump and his gang does play a clear and critical role in the book, there is a lot more here than cheap dunks on a clueless regime. And having just finished Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology, I…
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Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
This is kind of two books. The first half is basically the post-WWII history of computers, full of colourful characters and rich (if too brief) stories. It reads like an abridged version of Isaacson’s The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution – there are even several sections which could make…