Since Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States on January 20, he has followed through with his campaign promises to address issues ranging from immigration to military preparedness to education by fiat through the vehicle of the executive order. Although most of these orders doContinue Reading
May 10, 2019, felt like a turning point – that was the day U.S. President Donald Trump imposed 25 percent tariffs on a broad range of Chinese imports. For years, my auto parts company in the United States had struggled against a state-backed Chinese competitor. The tariffs offered a pathContinue Reading
The rapid rise of DeepSeek, a Chinese generative AI platform, heightened concerns this week over the United States’ AI dominance as Americans increasingly adopt Chinese-owned digital services. With ongoing criticism over alleged security issues posed by TikTok’s relationship to China, DeepSeek’s own privacy policy confirms that it stores user dataContinue Reading
As part of the so-called “people-to-people”-centered Chinese approach, sports facilities, and especially soccer stadiums, have played a role in demonstrating China’s goodwill and human-focused policy framing toward African societies. Huge stadium construction has become part of the daily realities of many large African cities, part of a renewed phenomenon inContinue Reading
In December 2024, the Hangzhou-based AI company DeepSeek released its V3 model, igniting a firestorm of debate. The result has been dubbed “China’s AI Shock.” DeepSeek-V3’s comparable performance to its U.S. counterparts such as GPT-4 and Claude 3 at lower costs casts doubt on the U.S. dominance over AI capabilities,Continue Reading
The Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion, introduced by the Biden administration just days before it departed office, incorporates measures designed to make developing frontier AI models off-limits to all countries in the world except the United States and a select group of allies. Given that AI capability is rapidly becomingContinue Reading
“Jailbreaks persist simply because eliminating them entirely is nearly impossible—just like buffer overflow vulnerabilities in software (which have existed for over 40 years) or SQL injection flaws in web applications (which have plagued security teams for more than two decades),” Alex Polyakov, the CEO of security firm Adversa AI, toldContinue Reading
Less than two weeks after DeepSeek launched its open-source AI model, the Chinese startup is still dominating the public conversation about the future of artificial intelligence. While the firm seems to have an edge on US rivals in terms of math and reasoning, it also aggressively censors its own replies.Continue Reading
This week, some auto industry observers felt a creeping sense of déjà vu. Seemingly out of nowhere, a Chinese firm made international headlines by besting Western companies at the tech they supposedly invented. No, it wasn’t BYD, the 20-year-old automaker that gained sudden global recognition in recent years as itContinue Reading
When Peter Dutton, the Australian leader of the opposition, was asked this week whether a Coalition government would continue to foster trade relations with China, he declared unequivocally that “the relationship with China will be much stronger than it is under the Albanese government.” Two points stood out: Dutton’s own positiveContinue Reading
