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Austin Bay

China’s commercial spies encounter blowback
01/18/2019 - 8:24am
Austin Bay
CHINESE ESPIONAGE: January 16, 2019 The past year has witnessed an overdue international response to China’s rapacious military espionage and economic theft operations. Noteworthy pushback occurred in December 2018 when Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Chinese telecom giant Huawei. Meng is also the daughter of Huawei’s billionaire founder, a man regarded...
The stakes in Congo: Lives and lifestyle
Austin Bay 01/10/2019 - 11:43am
CONGO: January 9, 2019 If you advocate electric vehicles and dote on cellphones whose manufacture depends on Congo’s minerals, then the Democratic Republic of Congo’s flawed Dec. 30 presidential election matters because it can affect your digital lifestyle. Congo’s stability also matters if you value human life. In Congo’...
The big story of 2018 is the Trump administration’s Korean diplomatic initiative
Austin Bay 01/02/2019 - 10:56am
2018: January 2, 2019 As 2018 began, Kim Jong Un’s North Korean dictatorship was touting its ICBMs. Many weapons analysts believed North Korean ICBMs could strike Seattle and San Francisco. As 2018 began, North Korean leaders routinely threatened South Korea, Japan and the U.S. with nuclear attack. In January, Kim claimed would soon deploy...
Waging peace on earth: Two comparative vignettes
Austin Bay 12/26/2018 - 8:50pm
PEACE: December 26, 2018 In 2005, I showed up at Camp Lemonnier, the American military base in the East African nation of Djibouti. As I joked in a column published that year, Djibouti is one of Earth’s hard corners few people can pronounce and still fewer visit. Located on the Horn of Africa, Djibouti’s neighborhood is violent....
Congo’s December elections and your lifestyle
Austin Bay 12/23/2018 - 7:00pm
CONGO: December 19, 2018 If you think the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Dec. 23 national elections will never touch your life, please contemplate the following factors indicative of the tight-knit and complex troubles we confront on 21st-century Earth. Consider the great Congo War’s bloodbath. This column lacks a camera that could...
SecDef Mattis and India’s Sitharaman conduct meaningful public diplomacy
Austin Bay 12/12/2018 - 1:47pm
INDIA: December 14, 2018 The SecDef’s crafted statement was simultaneously a nuanced appeal to an ally and a harsh siren warning to China’s ruling Communist dictators. The siren warned aimed at Beijing — the emerging India and the U.S. alliance — has long-term implications for Asia’s threatened peace. U.S....
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