标题: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Feb 8, 2016 [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 2-9-2016 18:19 标题: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Feb 8, 2016 (1) Bloomberg View: A Nuclear Weapon the US Doesn't Need; Nuclear cruise missiles don't make strategic sense and won't increase the country's security. http://www.bloombergview.com/art ... he-u-s-doesn-t-need
Note:
(a) "Nuclear cruise missiles don't make strategic sense [subtitle] * * * tactical bombs"
(b) "Cruise missiles, which are smaller than land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles and fly farther than tactical bombs dropped by planes, are the wild card of the nuclear arsenal: Unlike ICBMs, they are very hard to spot by radar or satellite"
(i) tomahawk missile (table: Weight 2,900 lb (1,300 kg); Length Without booster 18 ft 3 in (5.56 m); Diameter 20.4 in (0.52 m); Operational range Block II TLAM-A – 1,350 nmi (1,550 mi; 2,500 km) )
(ii) LGM-30 Minuteman (table: Weight 78,000 lb (35,300 kg); Length 59 ft 9.5 in (18.2 m); Diameter 5 ft 6 in (1.7 m) (1st stage); Operational range approx. 8,100 (exact is classified) miles (13,000 km) )
both from en.wikipedia.org
(c) "There are also concerns over what will happen when the [Northrop Grumman] B-2 [introduction 1997] goes out of service and the B-52s, which have been flying since the 1950s, give up the ghost."
作者: choi 时间: 2-9-2016 18:20
(2) Bruce Einhorn, Pavel Alpeyev and Jungah Lee, Samsung’s Emerging Market Is * * * Japan? http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ar ... ing-market-is-japan
("One-fifth of the smartphones shipped around the world are Samsung’s, but in the No. 3 economy, it’s hard to find one. Samsung has just 6 percent of the 36 million phone market in Japan, according to researcher IDC, while Apple has close to 50 percent")
Note: summary underneath the title in print: The company can no longer afford to cede the No 3 economy
(3) Del Quentin Wilber, Stealing White; DuPont, China and a billion-dollar color. (one of the three feature stories)
"titanium white * * * DuPont has built its titanium dioxide [TiO2] into a $2.6 billion business, which it spun off as part of chemicals company Chemours, in Wilmington, Del, last fall.
"China also produces large amounts of the pigment, and its industries consume about a quarter of the world’s supply. Most of China’s TiO2 plants, however, use a less efficient and more hazardous process than the one developed at DuPont. Starting in the 1990s, if not earlier, China’s government and Chinese state-run businesses began seeking ways to adopt DuPont’s methods. Only they didn’t approach the company to make a formal deal.
"John Carlin, the assistant attorney general in charge of the US Department of Justice’s national security division [said:] 'This is theft. And this—stealing the color white—is a very good example of the problem. It’s not a national security secret. It’s about stealing something you can make a buck off of. It’s part of a strategy to profit off what American ingenuity creates.'
In 1991 Walter "Liew 刘元轩 was invited to a banquet in Beijing at which government officials thanked him for being a 'patriotic overseas Chinese.' [Liew was born in Malaysia, of Chinese descent.] According to FBI agent Kevin Phelan, who supervised the investigation of Liew, 'the banquet became his calling card.' In a 2004 letter to win a titanium dioxide contract from a Chinese company, Liew described meeting at the banquet Luo Gan 罗干, then the secretary general of the state council 国务院秘书长 [1988-1993], Beijing’s top policymaking body. Luo provided him with 'directives so that I would better understand China and continue to make contributions to her,' Liew wrote.
"In 2014, Liew was convicted of economic espionage, possession of trade secrets, and tax fraud in federal court and has begun serving a 15-year sentence in prison. He’s appealing the verdict. * * * Maegerle was convicted as an accomplice; he’s been sentenced to two and a half years for conspiring to sell trade secrets, attempting to steal trade secrets, and conspiring to obstruct justice. In September 2015, Christina Liew [Walter's wife], who had pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence, was sentenced to three years of probation.
Note:
(a) "In the mid-’90s, Liew established ties with Chinese corporations and officials and landed a contract to design a plant in Zhuzhou 湖南省株洲市, producing acrylic resin, a paint additive."
(b) "As they assembled their proposal for Pangang Group, [Robert] Maegerle fed Liew details from a 407-page manual known as the 'basic data document' for DuPont’s titanium dioxide plant in Kuan Yin 桃園市觀音區 [at the time: 觀音鄉], Taiwan."
(c) "Liew didn’t spend it, though. He continued to live in a modest rented house on a cul-de-sac in the hills of Orinda, Calif, about a 30-minute drive from San Francisco."