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The digital revolution, despite its potential, also carries serious risks for privacy, security, jobs, and democracy – challenges that are compounded by the rising monopoly power of a few American and Chinese data giants, including Facebook and Google.
And other Chinese Internet and financial
giants
such as Alibaba, Tencent, and Hony Capital, as well as state-owned companies such as the China Film Group, have invested tens of billions of dollars in US film ventures.
Between Apple’s recent decision to relinquish its Chinese user data storage to a Chinese partner and Google’s announcement that it will site a new AI research center in China, US technology
giants
are not just making deals to benefit their “stakeholders.”
Other pockets of extreme poverty, in China and India, are on the path of amelioration due to these two
giants'
rapid economic growth.
Sandwiched between China and India, Myanmar, which had earlier suspended construction of the Chinese-backed Myitsone Dam, may one day be the link that facilitates closer economic ties between the two
giants.
And what other economic
giants
are waiting in the wings?
When the US Treasury announced a bailout of mortgage
giants
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in July, the rally lasted just four weeks.
Consequently, the Fed left its interest rate unchanged throughout the summer of 2008, despite the collapse of mortgage
giants
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, AIG’s insolvency, and the emergence of global financial-market contagion.
It is into this dysfunctional environment that the three corporate
giants
are intervening.
This includes aggressive patrolling of the disputed Himalayan frontier by the People’s Liberation Army, many violations of the line of control separating the two giants, new assertiveness concerning India’s northeastern Arunachal Pradesh state – which China claims as its own – and vituperative attacks on India in the state-controlled Chinese media.
Many European policymakers, already convinced that the US-based tech
giants
are a threat to European security, would welcome the opportunity to pursue stronger actions against them.
Beyond the debate about how to tax today’s tech giants, Western economies confront the more fundamental question of whether markets still represent the most efficient way to allocate resources.
Trends in the region’s two
giants
are especially worrisome, with inflation having pierced the 5% threshold in China and running in excess of 8% in India.
Big Tech Is a Big ProblemCAMBRIDGE – Have the tech
giants
– Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft – grown too big, rich, and powerful for regulators and politicians ever to take them on?
And there is the risk that the tech
giants
will use their vast armies of programmers to develop a nearly identical product, and their vast legal resources to defend it.
To recover the confidence of the international business community and the world’s mining giants, who were enraged in recent years by forced renegotiations of existing deals by governments in Congo, Mongolia and Guinea, Camara was also wise to retreat from his threat to renegotiate existing mining concessions.
Moral Dilemmas for Fannie and FreddieNEW HAVEN – The United States government’s takeover of mortgage
giants
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac constitutes a huge bailout of these institutions’ creditors, whose losses have ballooned as house prices continue to plummet.
Helmut Schmidt’s WorldBERLIN – Germany lost one of its
giants
this week when former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt died at the great age of 96.
The tech giants, for their part, will continue to claim that they are merely distributing information.
Clearly, economic turbulence is roiling both of Asia’s major economies, the
giants
of the so-called BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, and China).
For, as inflationary fears in the BRIC
giants
grow, second thoughts about the shift in the world economy’s center of gravity are beginning to gain currency.
Since 2008, these two developing
giants
have contributed more to global GDP growth than the EU has.
One may readily dismiss such suggestions as mere pipe dreams of the "one-worlders' which will be resolutely opposed by the
giants
of America's Federal Reserve Board and Congress.
Manufacturing conglomerates such as Hyundai, LG, and Samsung have morphed into highly productive global
giants
whose growth creates fewer high-quality jobs at home than before.
Today, however, with Asia’s giants, India and China, joining the global economy, prices for oil, gold, wheat, and virtually every other commodity are exploding.
But that is not a good reason to leave Google and the other tech
giants
alone.
With oil reaching $100 dollars per barrel, and energy-hungry
giants
like the United States and China beating a path to Nigeria’s door, Africa’s leading oil producer wants to use petrodollars to cure the country’s economic ills and flex its muscles in the international arena.
Such disruption can come not only from the new mega-rich tech giants, but also from crowd sourcing, and tech-wealthy benefactors.
Instead, the new comparative debate involves Asia’s two new economic, demographic, and political giants, China and India.
Even as the world’s fifth-largest economy, the UK probably would not find it easy to negotiate favorable trade deals with
giants
like America, Japan, and China.
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