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November 14, 2023 | Emily de La Bruyère, Nathan Picarsic

The Perils of Allowing Elon Musk’s Starlink Into Gaza

Elon Musk wants Starlink, his low-earth orbit satellite constellation that delivers broadband internet, to be operating in Gaza. If deployed, the system could erode Israel’s internet blackout in the area,...

September 1, 2023 | Emily de La Bruyère, Nathan Picarsic

The US national innovation base has critical weaknesses. Just look at Starlink.

Defense intellectuals and proponents of defense innovation have been busy for over a decade selling dreams about Third, Fourth, perhaps Fifth Offsets; about the promise of bringing “dynamism” back...

August 28, 2023 | Nathan Picarsic, Emily de La Bruyère

A Compound Problem: Dialing in U.S. Semiconductor Strategy

Semiconductors are center stage in today’s U.S.-China geopolitical competition. And both sides are firing. The CHIPS Act, which just turned one year old, stands as the marque measure of U.S. initiative...

August 16, 2023 | Nathan Picarsic, Emily de La Bruyère

How the US Can Get Its Chips’ Worth With China

The passage of the CHIPS and Science Act one year ago this month was heralded as a monumental step in U.S. efforts to compete with China in the tech domain. “We need our government and our economy...

July 13, 2023 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Emily de La Bruyère

The Only Thing Worse than Bringing a Knife to a Gunfight

This spring, a delegation from the U.S. House of Representatives visited Taiwan – both as a show of solidarity and to develop responses to Beijing’s aggression. Among their “constructive takeaways” was...

June 16, 2023 | Emily de La Bruyère |

Biden wants a ‘thaw’ with China. What would that take?

The Chinese Communist Party follows a deliberate, consistent strategy toward the United States that has not changed — and will not anytime soon. That strategy’s overarching goal is to overtake...

March 17, 2023 | Nathan Picarsic, Emily de La Bruyère

Vultures at the gate: The national security risk of Silicon Valley Bank’s failure

In 2008, as the U.S. financial sector melted down, Beijing saw opportunity. “The financial crisis was a rare opportunity for Chinese enterprises lacking resources and advanced technology to go...

November 29, 2022 | Nathan Picarsic, Emily de La Bruyère

Indecent exposure in critical supply chains

In 2016, China’s Hefei Province launched a high-profile but cryptic and closely guarded industrial project: The “506 Project.” It leveraged some 54 billion RMB of provincial funds, backed...

April 5, 2021 | Rush Doshi, Emily de La Bruyère, Nathan Picarsic, John Ferguson

China as a ‘cyber great power’: Beijing’s two voices in telecommunications

Executive Summary External Chinese government and commercial messaging on information technology (IT) speaks in one voice. Domestically, one hears a different, second voice. The former stresses free markets,...

October 22, 2020 | Emily de La Bruyère, Nathan Picarsic

How Big Tech factors into the US-China geopolitical competition

Excerpt On Oct. 6, the House Judiciary Committee issued a report calling for new antitrust regulations to rein in Big Tech. This report comes after a 15-month antitrust probe into technology firms Google,...

July 26, 2020 | Emily de La Bruyère, Nathan Picarsic

There’s a Bigger Threat Than Big Tech. It’s Big China

As lawmakers grill U.S. technology CEOs, they should ask not just about their near-monopoly power today, but also about staving off Chinese dominance tomorrow.