Tag: Science and Technology

The U.S. government’s raid on a Hyundai battery plant for electric cars in Ellabell, Georgia, last week was the economic policy equivalent of a cluster bomb, one of the dumbest ...

United Nations summits typically unfold with a feverish intensity. Official delegates battle over every verb, dollar figure, and timeline in the outcome document. But there was little drama of multilateralism ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping were caught on a hot mic at the recent military parade in Beijing discussing the prospect of human longevity. “People rarely ...

The United States is now the biggest shareholder in one of its biggest semiconductor companies. U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Aug. 22 that the U.S. government has taken a ...

The United States and China are constantly looking for a leg up in their rivalry for geopolitical primacy. But what if the real advantage lies in adopting a bit of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...