Trump’s Trade Tactics Come for Chip Controls
U.S. President Donald Trump, like the two presidents before him, set out to revitalize the U.S. semiconductor industry. The fact that he is going about it in a way that ...
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A New Chapter in the U.S.-China Chip Trade
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: U.S. chipmakers reach new deal on exports to China, a top Chinese diplomat is detained for questioning, and ships collide in ...
Trump’s AI Action Plan Is at War With Itself
U.S. President Donald Trump’s “America’s AI Action Plan” breaks from AI policies of the past. The goal is AI acceleration by any means possible to beat America’s nemesis: China. The ...
Leashing Chinese AI Needs Smart Chip Controls
China’s stunning achievements in AI have one glaring weak spot: access to compute—the raw processing power that fuels AI and relies on large volumes of advanced semiconductors. The U.S. currently ...
The Air Battle That Could Decide the Russia-Ukraine War
Arguably the most far-reaching developments in military technology and tactics that we have witnessed in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is the contest for air superiority above the battlefield using an ...
America Can’t Lead in AI by Firing All the Experts
The United States is caught in a growing paradox. Just as artificial intelligence (AI) has become a key focus of U.S. President Donald Trump’s policy agenda, the administration’s efforts to ...
The Novels We’re Reading in July
This month, we’re reading about the complexities of love—particularly queer love—in environments that are hostile to it, from war-torn El Salvador to modern-day Lagos. Archive of Unknown Universes: A Novel ...
I Was Hacked Because I Work on Russia
Claudie Weber is a senior program advisor at the U.S. State Department. She got in touch with me by email in May, looking to discuss “recent developments” and copying several of ...
Can China Catch Up on AI?
As details emerge from the trade negotiations between the United States and China this week, one thing seems clear: Rare earths were an important part of the discussions. China has ...
How the United States Can Win the Global Tech Race
The Trump administration has scrapped its predecessor’s sweeping export controls for advanced artificial intelligence chips, known as the AI diffusion rule. “To win the AI race, the Biden AI diffusion ...
