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President Trump’s administration has just authorized Nvidia to sell its second most advanced chips to China, the H200’s. It’s obvious that the Chinese will use the chips to advance their work on Artificial Intelligence, which has equally obvious military and strategic uses–it’s widely assumed that in any armed conflict, AI systems will be able to […]…

Outsiders often struggle to understand a basic question, Who Is Xi Jinping? History teaches us many lessons about rapid ideological change in China and how profoundly the nation can be forced to shift gears. I know because I lived through and reported on one such shift during my time in Hong Kong and Beijing from […]…

President Trump told reporters in Tokyo who asked about his impending meeting with Xi Jinping, “I like him. He likes me.” He predicted a successful “transaction.” The notion that Xi “likes” Trump and would allow that to influence Chinese policies is laughable. And the fact that Trump thinks about managing China as a “transaction” reveals […]…

This is the most important article in today’s New York Times. “The Trump Administration’s cuts to federal programs have eroded U.S. cyberspace defenses…” And quoting Angus King of Maine, a senator who helped lead by Cyberspace Solarium Commission,, “I would call it almost an across-the-board retreat from the national security defenses that we built up […]…