President Donald Trump emerged from his May 2026 summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping embracing a new framework for U.S.-China relations. The White House said the two leaders agreed to build a “constructive...
The Beijing summit was pageantry; Xi’s ambitions are not
Trading the island’s security for rhetoric from Beijing would be a strategic blunder of historic proportions.
Washington is looking to choke off China’s advanced chip sector. As reported by Reuters on April 28, the Commerce Department sent letters to several major American chipmaking firms immediately banning...
Congress is seeking to lock China out of the global advanced chip-making market. Senators Pete Ricketts (R-NE) and Andy Kim (D-NJ), along with Representative Michael Baumgartner (R-WA), introduced a...
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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...
In March 2025, a team from Peking University made waves when it announced an achievement that shattered semiconductor performance limits – without using silicon. The breakthrough, on the heels of DeepSeek, underscores China’s tech innovative capacity, undeterred by America’s tech denial strategy. Developing an effective policy campaign to preserve the West’s lead in high-end tech demands a far more robust understanding of China’s current positioning and priorities.
“The enemy gets a vote.” The strategic planning axiom might be a cliché, but it is a useful one. And it may be dangerously overlooked in assessing the utility of Taiwan’s “Silicon Shield,” the...
The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party issued letters to several large semiconductor manufacturers this morning seeking detailed information on their sales and top customers. The move...
The most powerful Communist regime ever threatens its democratic neighbor
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...
Excerpt The recent meeting between Taiwan’s President, Tsai Ing-wen, and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) brought predictable threats of “consequences” from Beijing, as China launched...
Congress should pass a proposed expansion of the law that keeps the federal government from buying certain companies’ products.
Excerpt Washington’s wielding of strategic export controls has seriously blunted Beijing’s technological ambitions, so much so that Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei warned in a recently leaked memo that...
How Chinese Grand Strategy Exploits U.S. Power
The United States Innovation and Competition Act (USICA) of 2021, which passed the Senate in June, calls for $52 billion in appropriations over five years to support semiconductor manufacturing as well...