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Before parity

The moment is too sobering for the irony to fully register. Only months ago, the U.S. dismissed focus on AI safety as misplaced. Only weeks ago, it capriciously designated AI lab Anthropic as a supply chain safety risk amid a dispute over m...

2 months ago

Cruising to victory

The Adora Magic City, China’s first domestically built cruise ship

This year, nearly twenty-two million Americans will set sail on a cruise. Their tourism spending drives the multi-billion dollar industry, yet effectively none of that spen...

5 months ago

The year in China 2025

In 2025, China exuded a soaring swagger on the world stage mirrored only by a deepening crisis of confidence among many of its people about their personal prospects. An industrial and technological power bruising even to its own economy, Ch...

6 months ago
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The cost of freedom, the price of inertia

In November, when the leadership of America’s military was not preoccupied with striking alleged drug smugglers on the high seas, it saw fit to release an acquisition strategy intended to ‘rebuild the arsenal of freedom.’ Like the broader p...

6 months ago

Systemic competition

Review of Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future by Dan Wang. W. W. Norton, 2025.

It is an improbable combination: part treatise on the failures of the United States and China’s governing pathologies; meditation on the lingering...

10 months ago

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