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Alphabet publishes fourth-quarter earnings. It's the first report since founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin stepped down last month. Investors want to see if the fertile "Google other" revenue source, which includes cloud services, the app store, and hardware, keeps growing exuberantly.The Motley Fool
China's markets opened after Lunar New Year to a bloodbath. Over 80% of all Chinese shares listed on the country’s two major stock exchanges saw trading suspended after they sank heavily, hitting the country's daily limit that caps gains and losses to 10%. Monday’s morning trading marked the worst fall in Chinese markets since 2015.Quartz
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A Raytheon engineer was arrested for taking US missile defense plans to China. Wei Sun, a Chinese-born American citizen with a secret-level security clearance, allegedly took his work laptop on a trip to China and connected to the defense contractor's internal network.Quartz
Pretty crazy stuff, but it should not be surprising anymore. We desperately need to wake up to the threat posed by Chinese espionage— its a threat we haven’t dealt with since the height of the Cold War.
Arguably Chinese spying is more dangerous than the Soviets ever were, by virtue of being so successful.
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