Michael Schuman: Think it’s too hard to decouple from China? Think again: It’ll take work for corporate America to set up new supply chains and develop new consumers, but then again, the Chinese market took work, too. https://bloom.bg/2DCXMUH
John Hulsman: The little-known thinker who holds the key to Cold War II https://bit.ly/32hredk
Beijing is taking its cue from a little-known American strategist of the 1940s
“Geography is the most fundamental factor in foreign policy because it is the most permanent.” -- Nicholas J. Spykman, The Geography of the Peace, 1944
A Sino-American bond, forged by Chinese students, is in peril: Plummeting Chinese demand for a US education will undermine American soft power. https://econ.st/3h0X0zl
Wired: Banning Huawei’s 5G tech in the UK was the easy bit. Now it gets messy https://bit.ly/30bGk1q
Political sanctions have created new security and logistical challenges in the UK.
@FrancescoBechis: A secret document from the Italian government tightens up rules on #5G de facto excluding Chinese providers like Huawei and ZTE from the network. After the UK, Italy seems ready for a major political shift on 5G
A return to ‘normal’: How long will the pandemic last? https://whr.tn/30dteRc
'Hands free': Automakers race to next level of not quite self-driving cars: Autopilot, ProPilot, CoPilot: Automakers have many names for new systems that allow for hands-free driving, but no safety or performance standards to follow as they roll out the most significant changes to vehicle technology in a generation. https://reut.rs/2OqQLZl
Researchers saw a third fewer vehicle collisions with deer, elk, moose, and other large mammals in the four weeks following COVID-19 shutdowns in three states they tracked.
How to design a post-pandemic city: Architects and public health experts in Baltimore have released a guidebook of 10 concepts that reimagine urban living for an era defined by social distancing. https://bloom.bg/2CFalP6
Al Franken: How Biden wins https://cnn.it/32iIBKR
Joe Biden is teaming up with Bernie Sanders to raise taxes—here’s the plan https://bit.ly/2Ovm7y5
Here are five key points in Biden's new economic plan.
1. Tax wages and capital at the same rate.
2. Increase taxes on the wealthiest Americans by limiting unequal and unproductive tax expenditures.
3. Increase corporate tax rates.
4. Increase estate taxes back to their norm.
5. Expand the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit.
Peter Thiel’s new man in the Defense Department: The new head of defense research and engineering comes from the White House with a relatively light resume. https://bit.ly/30bFr96
Out of office: Nick Howard and Robert Moran of Brunswick offer four data-driven scenarios of how we might return to work—and ways companies can start preparing for each. https://bit.ly/2Wmygty
@CivicScience: 46% of remote workers aren’t comfortable returning to offices before a vaccine is available
Siemens says it plans to allow more than 100,000 of its employees to work away from the office for two or three days a week on a permanent basis.
What causes crazy-high prices on Wayfair and Amazon? https://bit.ly/3h6Ogb5
The political struggle over TikTok, as interpreted by Stratechery's Ben Thompson. https://bit.ly/393S0r4
Google reportedly prioritized YouTube in video search results to give it more leverage in negotiations with content providers.
Google’s former CEO hosts an exclusive retreat in Yellowstone each July. You won’t hear much about it. Weekend getaways like these aren’t uncommon. But they are drawing more and more scrutiny. https://bit.ly/2Wiy1zF
The end of pay-TV https://bit.ly/3eATrhA
Watch Apollo 11: Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage, and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, Apollo 11 takes us straight to the heart of NASA’s most celebrated mission—the one that first put men on the moon, and forever made Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin into household names. Immersed in the perspectives of the astronauts, the team in Mission Control, and the millions of spectators on the ground, we vividly experience those momentous days and hours in 1969 when humankind took a giant leap into the future. Trailer here: http://bit.ly/2mceWjO
Americans increase LSD use--and a bleak outlook for the world may be to blame: Millennials and older adults lead the surge while Gen Z stays on the sidelines. https://bit.ly/2Oq604V
Sports are coming back. Is sports media coming back with it? When games return this summer, things will look a lot different. Can journalists continue to cover sports like they once did? https://bit.ly/2Zw03tf
