PositiveThe Wall Street Journal... captures how much has been wrested from Hong Kong’s people—a measure of how far Beijing is willing to go to destroy liberal institutions and democratic norms and ensure its tight lock on the power of the Chinese Communist Party ... Mr. Clifford aptly concludes by wondering whether \'Hong Kong can be both a global financial center and a city that holds political prisoners.\'
Chris Sagers
MixedThe Wall Street Journal[Sagers\'] analysis can be helpful—he notes the long history of companies invoking claims of \'predatory pricing\' as a cudgel against more efficient competitors and stresses that consumers often benefit when industries and companies are driven out of business—but he is confused about the case itself ... Mr. Sagers forgets the guardrail rule of antitrust: Don’t bring cases against innovations that create more competition.
David Patrikarakos
PositiveThe Wall Street JournalMr. Patrikarakos’s War in 140 Characters details a new kind of conflict that puts traditional military dominance at risk by weaponizing social media in ways that Silicon Valley’s digital optimists never imagined ...the wars he was covering in the Middle East and Ukraine were fought through social media as much as through physical warfare ...book offers vivid profiles of individuals on both sides of the online battlefield ... Mr. Patrikarakos doubts that Western governments alone can counter the disinformation on social media and proposes a network of hundreds of digital activists... Without an equal and opposite deployment of social media, Mr. Patrikarakos warns, the West 'will continue to lose the narrative war.'
