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Our experts analyze the great power competition between China and the United States; from territorial disputes with Taiwan and the South China Sea, to tension points over foreign wars and economic competition.

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From Defense, Emerging Technology, and Strategy
A good analogy is a soccer match, where two teams battle fiercely but abide by certain rules and boundaries, kicking only the ball, rather than each other.
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Spotlight: Is China Beating the U.S. to AI Supremacy?
Graham Allison and Eric Eric Schmidt sound an alarm over China’s rapid progress and the current prospect of it overtaking the United States in applying artificial intelligence in the decade ahead. In this essay the authors explain why AI is an existential priority for China, and identify key unanswered questions about the dangers of an unconstrained AI arms race between the two digital superpowers.