When Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump meet in Beijing on May 14-15, both are looking to stabilize the volatile and fraught U.S.-China relationship. Significant and diverse differences between the two sides will endure long beyond the summit meeting, but overall stabilization and progress on ten specific policy areas is achievable.

After the 2024 presidential election in the United States, a rising political right wing in Silicon Valley formed a “tech-political complex” with the Trump administration. Centered on tech acceleration and tech nationalism, it is pushing for military-civil integration, technological blockades against China and deregulation of the technology sector.

Advances in AI and robotics, highlighted by rapid progress in China, are driving a “Robot Revolution” that will reshape work, production, and global power. Countries that lead in developing humanoid robots are poised to gain major economic and strategic advantages.

Chinese AI startup Moonshot’s chatbot Kimi closely mirrors Anthropic’s Claude, highlighting how imitation, distillation, and API compatibility have become common practices in the global AI race. The episode underscores how cost, geopolitics, and weak cross-border enforcement shape AI competition alongside innovation.

The Munich Security Conference reveals a shift in transatlantic ties as AI security becomes central to global debate. Europe is increasingly linking AI policy to technological autonomy, seeking to balance cooperation with the United States while strengthening its own strategic capabilities.

In November 2024, US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping made their first substantive joint statement about the national-security risks posed b

As artificial intelligence rapidly expands, the United States and China face similar sustainability challenges, but their responses differ starkly — shaping AI’s long-term environmental footprint.

The success of the Manhattan Project was the result of specific historical conditions. Its model of concentrating resources to achieve a single technological breakthrough doesn’t fit the characteristics and competitive landscape of the AI era.

In a few short years AI technology has already become a legitimate threat to the earth’s environment. Without guardrails put in place, the competition between the U.S. and China could outstrip current infrastructure.

Advanced technologies, especially artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors, and quantum computing, have emerged at the heart of most nations’ national strategic planning. China also developed national plans for technological breakthroughs. However, unlike most other countries, China’s current plans are heavily influenced by unprecedented US export curbs on acquiring technology. These steep and targeted export curbs are intended to prevent China from acquiring high technologies to maintain the US monopoly. They started during the first term of US President Donald Trump (2017-2021), continued during the Biden administration, and intensified since Trump’s second term.