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Kevin Rudd: The Avoidable War. The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping’s China

USA / CHINA: Is the current US-China systemic divide unbridgeable? According to US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken: "Our relationship with China will be competitive when it has to, cooperative when it can, and hostile when it has to." On the other hand, China is now led by a man who, according to book author Kevin Rudd, has considerable intellectual resources – under his leadership, China has grown into a superpower.

Yasha Levine: Surveillance Valley. The Secret Military History of the Internet

SURVEILLANCE: State surveillance would not have been possible without the services of Silicon Valley's technology companies. For example, Google in Surveillance Valley is described as "a full-fledged military contractor, who sold versions of the company's consumer data and analytics technology to police departments, city councils, and major U.S. intelligence and military organizations."