Tiananmen Square

January 30, 2025 | Jack Burnham, Craig Singleton

‘AI’s Sputnik Moment’: Chinese AI Model DeepSeek-R1 Reportedly Surpasses Leading U.S. AI Models

Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released its latest model, R1, on January 20. According to the company, R1 performs favorably compared to leading Western models on key benchmarking tests despite having been allegedly developed at a fraction of the cost and employing a fraction of the computing power. Silicon Valley venture capitalist and White House advisor Marc Andreessen referred to DeepSeek’s announcement as “AI’s Sputnik moment,” comparing the development to the Soviet Union’s launch of the first satellite.

Policy Briefs
May 22, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

Biden’s substitute for victory

At best, it’s a frozen conflict

Op-eds
March 22, 2024 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery |

Congress Is Right to Call for the Strategic Divestment of TikTok

The Chinese Communist Party in Beijing is nervous — and it ought to be. The U.S. Congress has targeted a significant tool the CCP uses to spread disinformation among Americans, and the rulers in Beijing...

Op-eds
January 23, 2024 | Craig Singleton |

Beijing’s Economic Challenges Present Opportunities for Washington

China’s National Bureau of Statistics reported last week that the country’s economy grew by just 5.2 percent in 2023, with the World Bank forecasting that China’s growth rate could slow even...

Policy Briefs
October 18, 2023 | Matt Pottinger |

Remarks by Matt Pottinger at Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation’s China Forum 2023

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Remarks
June 17, 2022 | LTG (Ret.) H.R. McMaster, Gabriel Scheinmann

U.S. Restraint Has Created an Unstable and Dangerous World

Decades of ignoring the menaces posed by Russia and China has led the West to a precipice.

Op-eds
June 9, 2022 | Ivana Stradner, Michael Rubin

Henry Kissinger’s Long History of Appeasing Dictatorships

He’s spent decades cultivating a friendship with Putin, but he’s also advocated for Iran and China.

Op-eds
March 4, 2022 | Shany Mor |

Biden’s Bold Gamble Might Just Save Ukraine

The Ukraine War is only a week old, so it’s far too soon to make any judgements about its outcome. One thing is clear, though: Russian President Vladimir Putin badly miscalculated. He is facing...

Op-eds
September 27, 2021 | Craig Singleton |

Xi Takes a Page From Mao’s Red Playbook

Like Mao’s consolidation of power, in the coming year Xi will also further intertwine foreign and domestic crises, even at the risk of potentially serious flair ups with Washington over Taiwan.

Op-eds
August 23, 2021 | Matt Pottinger |

Beijing’s American Hustle

How Chinese Grand Strategy Exploits U.S. Power

Op-eds
August 17, 2021 | Frank Luntz, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

The Afghan debacle will destroy the Biden presidency

Americans once supported military withdrawal, but they will punish a president who leads the US to defeat

Op-eds
October 1, 2020 | Craig Singleton |

Why Downplaying China’s Election Interference Could Backfire

Following the release of U.S. intelligence assessments exposing Russian, Chinese and Iranian interference in the 2020 election—as well as revelations that cyber actors from all three countries were...

Op-eds
July 29, 2020 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Was Nixon Wrong About China?

It might be time to question the conventional wisdom.

Op-eds
May 27, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Communist China’s imperialist dreams

The Belt and Road Initiative is about more than infrastructure

Op-eds
March 4, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Free Jimmy Lai

China’s rulers let loose a deadly virus and imprison a champion of human rights

Op-eds
September 12, 2016 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross |

A grim anniversary: 15 years after 9/11, the war against radical Islamist terrorism is not good

Imagine it's 15 years ago, immediately after the 9/11 attacks. You are told that in September 2016, a couple of major counterterrorism victories would be just around the corner. These impend...

Op-eds
June 8, 2015 |

Tiananmen and China’s Long March

In the 66 years since Mao Tse-tung founded the People’s Republic of China, there has been just one brief spell in which the people of China escaped the chains of their rulers, enough to spe...

Op-eds
October 3, 2014 |

Democracy in China?

Should it matter to the rest of us that Hong Kong has erupted this past week with demonstrations for democracy? China’s rulers say this is an internal matter. Western leaders, while express...

Op-eds
June 9, 2014 | Jonathan Kay

Twenty-five years later, our democratic reveries about Tiananmen Square seem ridiculous

Here in the West, everyone knows Tank Man — the brave Chinese protestor (pictured above) who stood alone in front of a column of tanks on Changan Avenue in Beijing, just outside Tiananmen S...

Op-eds
May 12, 2014 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Successes and Failures of the U.S. and NATO Intervention in Libya

Download the full written testimony here (PDF). Ch...

Congressional Testimonies