How China built the bureaucracy it needed to crackdown on tech giants.
In the early 1980s, when Chinese leaders debated how to reform and open up China’s economy, Chen Yun advocated for a ‘birdcage economy.’ In his analogy, the bird was China’s economy, ready to take flight, while the cage referred to the state’s planning and control, which would prevent the bird from flying away.
Before the mid-2000s, most discussions on the birdcage economy in Chinese officialdom did not distinguish between different kinds of birds. But as the Chinese state endeavore
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Jen Easterly, the eccentric director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), has huge support when it comes to her number one priority: fighting back against Chinese cyber attacks. But to actually solve the China hacking problem, she'll have to figure out how to line up both the private sector and the politicians who are skeptical of CISA.
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