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Protected in Name Only: HIPAA’s Health Data Gap Is Becoming a National Security Risk

Protected health data is only as secure as the system designed to protect it.

Even Limited Sales of High-End Chips to Chinese Buyers Pose a Serious Risk

China has a new opportunity to use American chips to achieve its artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions. On July 14, Jeffrey Kessler, the head of the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security...

China Is Treating AI Companions as a National Security Risk. The U.S. Should Too.

Chinese regulators don’t want their people getting too attached to their AI “friends,” requiring companies to curb features that foster emotional dependency by July 15. In response, Chinese firms...

Beijing Grapples With Controlling Its Domestic AI Sector

China is increasingly concerned over what its AI investments have wrought. On July 7, Reuters reported that Beijing is considering placing export controls on Chinese AI models, mirroring a move by the...

Updated Pentagon List Targets China’s Military-Civil Fusion Program

The Pentagon just fired a warning shot at Beijing — and Wall Street. On June 8, the Pentagon released its updated Section 1260H list, which designates Chinese companies as supporting Beijing’s military-civil...

U.S.-China Summit Underlines Stalemate Between Washington and Beijing

The United States and China remain stuck in a stalemate, but Beijing isn’t likely to be disappointed. President Trump and Chinese paramount leader Xi Jinping convened in Beijing on May 14 to 15 to...

Seeking Comment on Prohibiting Importation and Marketing of Previously Authorized Covered Communications Equipment Added to the Covered List in 2024 or Earlier

Eyeing China’s Growth, NIST Launches New Standards Initiative for AI Agents

Washington is seeking to place artificial intelligence (AI) agents at the center of American technology dominance. On February 17, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) launched the...

OpenAI Alleges China’s DeepSeek Stole its Intellectual Property to Train its Own Models

One year on from DeepSeek’s first major release, Washington is probing deeper into the Chinese artificial intelligence firm’s unexpected success. The U.S. AI firm OpenAI publicly released a memo...

An Urgent Call to Close the Loopholes on Chips and China

The core lessons from the Cold War should guide us as we face the new “Axis of Aggressors” today. First among these, is that we need to win the technology race. Advanced technology made in United...

Seeking Decisive Edge, China Uses Third-Party Countries to Circumvent U.S. AI Export Controls

Chinese firms have embraced an indirect approach to competing with Silicon Valley.

The Near Enemy: China’s Subnational Reach Into the United States

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Don’t let China take over the cloud — US national security depends on it 

Most Americans would assume Huawei was left for dead after the U.S. government led a global multi-pronged campaign against the company’s 5G business in 2019. However, in recent years...

China Pledges Closer Iran Ties Amidst Middle East Instability

Chinese Premier Li Qiang met with Iranian First Vice-President Mohammad Mokhber on October 27 and affirmed Beijing’s commitment to strengthening its “comprehensive strategic...

Beijing’s Power Play

Safeguarding U.S. National Security in the Electric Vehicle and Battery Industries

Investors Should Demand Transparency From ESG Research Firms

End-of-year data show that in 2021, investment surged in stocks rated positively by financial research firms on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria, which include an ever-growing list of...

China’s Sharp Economic Slowdown Threatens to Constrain Xi in 2022

With 10 months until China’s 20th Party Congress, at which Xi Jinping will likely assume a once-unthinkable third term as general secretary, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is grappling with an economic...

Beijing’s American Hustle

How Chinese Grand Strategy Exploits U.S. Power

Follow the Money: Exposing China’s Influence Operations at Academic Institutions and Think Tanks

Secretary of State Michael Pompeo issued an ultimatum last month to think tanks and academic institutions around the country: Publicly disclose funding received from foreign governments or risk losing access...

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