>>1931> It's true that silicon valley isn't taking info security seriously.If there is physical defencetech, there must also be intellectual defencetech, and we are free to get our technology from external sources as needed. There are some points of particular interest to Greater San Francisco.
There are two famous universities in the chinese northern capital, Peking University (PKU) and Tsinghua (THU). The one relevant to Silicon Valley is Tsinghua University, which has economic and technological dominance. Established on the site of a Ts'ing (Qing) royal garden near the Old Summer Palace, it has become a preferred destination for western tech envoys to the Celestial Empire, including Bill Gates, Tim Cook, and Mark Zuckerberg. Mark Zuckerberg, in particular, learned chinese (pekingnese) and emphasized that his wife was chinese when hoping to obtain access to the chinese market. I note that Priscilla Chan has ancestry from the Pearl River Delta, as does much of Little Toishan in San Francisco.
Google recently added Cantonese to Google Translate, and it outperforms Baidu's and Bing's. I'm pleased that they understand that Shumchun, as an industrial centre in the Pearl River Delta, is an inalienable part of its inviolable territory.
Now, why is China's THU so important to industry? China's Silicon Valley (Zhongguancun), is located near THU. Of particular importance is Tsinghua Unigroup, a Chinese state-owned semiconductor manufacturing firm. In Taiwan, the analogous site of Hsinchu Science Park is located near the ROC versions of Tsinghua and Chiao Tung University. Our Silicon Valley has Berkeley and Stanford.
You might be wondering what happened to PKU down the street nearby the Old Summer Palace. Some of the most recent leaders of China, prominently including Xi Jinping, Hu Jintao, Zhu Rongji, Wu Bangguo, Huang Ju and Ma Kai are all THU alumni, and one would expect them to favor THU over PKU, which they do. THU alumni are found all over the world, including Hsinchu Science Park and our own Silicon Valley, giving back generously to their alma mater. At present, Hsinchu's Science Park and Silicon Valley are no longer as interesting as Cerebral Valley in San Francisco itself. We should learn from how China's elites treat the strategic importance of their educational institutions far more seriously than we do.
