Didi, China, and the Data War

Didi, China, and the Data War
The app logo of Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi is seen reflected on its navigation map displayed on a mobile phone on July 1, 2021. Florence Lo/Reuters
Arthur Herman
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Welcome to the newest frontier in the struggle between the United States and China for geopolitical dominance: the struggle for control of the strategic commodity of the future: data.

Arthur Herman
Arthur Herman
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Arthur Herman is senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and director of the Quantum Alliance Initiative. He's also the Pulitzer Prize Finalist author of nine books, including “Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II” (2012); “1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder” (2017); the New York Times best-seller “How the Scots Invented the Modern World” (2001), and co-author of “Quantum Computing: How to Address the National Security Risk.”
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