The U.S.- China Economic and Security Review Commission is a small, fast-paced, nonpartisan, legislative branch Commission responsible for monitoring,
investigating and submitting an annual report to the Congress on the national security implications of the bilateral trade and economic relationship
between the United States and the People's Republic of China.
The Commission conducts its work and studies in the following areas: China's military buildup, proliferation practices, regional economic and security
impacts, U.S.- China bilateral programs, economic transfers, energy, U.S. capital markets, WTO compliance, and the implication of restrictions on speech
and access to information in China.
US-China Economic & Security Review Comm. Commission member questions union leader on China.
Commissioner Wessel testifies to Congress
American Made Heroes
applauds President Hockfield's focus on USA's needs.
President of M.I.T. warns USA about China and our need to invest to compete in the coming century.
"Bob Solow, one of M.I.T.'s extraordinary economists who won a Nobel Prize, did a study that showed that half of the
economic growth in the United States after World War II could be attributed directly to technology."
"It is a powerful force for economic growth ... but also a force for good."
MIT President Susan Hockfield has established a team that will work over the next two-and-a-half years to produce a non-academic book that is intended to
highlight the importance of manufacturing to the U.S. economy and outline a strategy that puts the United States back into global competition.
-- Susan Hockfield, President of M.I.T.
M.I.T.'s best minds assigned to study the United States' domestic manufacturing future.
"To a large extent our government has not yet realized that the self-interests of our corporations, especially our large
global corporations, can diverge from the interests of our country. We need to find ways to fundamentally "change the
motivations of corporations to align with those of our country
."
--(Ralph Gomory)
Extremely well credentialed & true
American Made Hero.
"Three people who visited Google’s Mountain View, California, headquarters while the attacks were in progress describe dramatic scenes of a company under
siege. Google “built a physically separate area for the security team,” one of them says. Sergey Brin, one of the company’s co-founders, was deeply
involved in the cyber-defense. “He moved his desk to go sit with the Aurora responders every day. Because he grew up in the Soviet Union, he personally has
a real *&#@%* for the Chinese now. He is pissed.” Caught unawares and shorthanded, the company made a list of the world’s top security professionals,
and Brin personally called to offer them jobs—with $100,000 signing bonuses for some, according to one person who received such an offer—and quickly built
Google’s small, pre-Aurora security operation into a group of more than 200." --
Intel's co-founder Andy Grove fled Communism, loves America ... and is very concerned.
In the below review he contends that Tom "Friedman is wrong."
"The underlying problem isn't simply lower Asian costs. It's our own misplaced faith in the power of startups to create U.S. jobs.
Americans love the idea of the guys in the garage inventing something that changes the world. New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman recently
encapsulated this view in a piece called "Start-Ups, Not Bailouts." His argument: Let tired old companies that do commodity
manufacturing die if they have to. If Washington really wants to create jobs, he wrote, it should back startups."
"I fled Hungary as a young man in 1956 to come to the U.S. Growing up in the Soviet bloc, I witnessed first-hand the
perils of both government overreach and a stratified population. Most Americans probably aren't aware that there was a time in this country when tanks and cavalry were massed on Pennsylvania
Avenue to chase away the unemployed. It was 1932; thousands of jobless veterans were demonstrating outside the White House. Soldiers with fixed bayonets
and live ammunition moved in on them, and herded them away from the White House. In America! Unemployment is corrosive. If what I'm suggesting sounds
protectionist, so be it."
"Not only the wealth, but the independence and security of a country, appear
to be materially connected with the prosperity of manufacturers. Every nation ... ought to endeavor to possess within
itself all the essentials of a national supply. They comprise the means of subsistence, habitation, clothing and
defense ... The expediency of encouraging manufactures in the United States, which was not long since deemed very
questionable, appears at this time to be pretty generally admitted."
-- Alexander Hamilton ... an
American Made Hero!
Additional "Heroes" who testified to the Commission ... more to be added.
Ralph Gomory
Dr. Usha Haley
Dr. George T. Haley
Leo Hindery
Peter Morici
Professor & IBM Exec
Professor & Author
Professor & Author
New America Foundation
Professor of Int'l Business
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Robert Kuttner
Ron Hira, Ph.D.
Peter Navarro
Dr. Willy Shih
Thea Lee
Author & Advocate
Professor & Author
Professor & Author
Business Professor
AFL-CIO
