Book World: In 2034, it s man against machine
Manuel Roig-Franzia, The Washington Post
March 8, 2021
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2034: A Novel of the Next World War
By Elliot Ackerman and James Stavridis
Penguin Press. 320 pp. $27
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In the late 1700s and early 1800s, a machine known as The Turk became a sensation by winning matches against expert chess players.
Audiences marveled at this feat of technological wizardry - that is, until one vanquished player took a closer look and discovered that there was a man hidden inside. The whole thing was a hoax.
That long-ago story pops into the head of Sandeep Chowdhury, a deputy U.S. national security adviser, as he s pulled deeper into a terrifying match of technology and military gamesmanship in 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, by combat veteran Elliot Ackerman and Adm. James Stavridis, a former supreme allied commander of NATO.
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US State Department takes action against Pingtan Marine executives, alleging IUU fishing involvement
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Executives from Pingtan Marine Enterprise Ltd. have had their travel visas revoked as part of an escalation in U.S. sanctions against China.
Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China-based Pingtan Marine is a distant-water fishing firm operating globally, listed publicly on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange.
On 7 December, the U.S. Department of State issued a notice on Twitter that it had taken action against officials from the company for alleged involvement in illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
“The U.S. revoked more than 15 visas for those complicit in IUU fishing who also have links to human trafficking, including associates of Pingtan Marine Enterprise Ltd. The U.S. will continue disrupting transnational crime, including particularly when linked to IUU fishing,” a message issued on Twitter by the Eastern and Pacific Affairs Bureau of the State Department sa