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Central Asian Defense Diversification: A Strategic Opportunity for the United States

By complementing existing minerals cooperation with new defense partnerships, the U.S. can enable Central Asian governments to achieve greater security independence from Moscow, forestall Chinese influence, and advance American interests in a strategically ascendant region.Read more...

Global Government Cloud Partnerships Map

American firms, Chinese state-funded groups, and international organizations work with over 160 foreign governments to build secure cloud infrastructure and other vital components of the AI stack around the world. This interactive map explores these partnerships in the context of AI competition between the U.S. and China. Read more...

The AI Threat Transparency Gap: Risk Reporting Practices in the U.S. and China

Industry-led voluntary reporting of novel AI-assisted risks, threats, and harms is critical to the global development of ethical technologies and norms. A review of thirty AI companies in the U.S. and China finds that American firms maintain far more transparent, accountable, and robust threat reporting practices than their Chinese counterparts. Read more...

Not Science Fiction: Agentic Cyber Defense Is Now an Urgent U.S. Imperative

To defend against AI-assisted cyber attacks, it's time to fight fire with fire and ensure U.S. energy dominance, says Julia Nesheiwat, former Homeland Security Advisor to the President and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Energy and Courtney Manning. Read more...

Can the Dollar Stay on Top? Risks and Realities of De-Dollarization

Expanding de-dollarization efforts to upend US economic influence by moving away from the dollar pose a threat to American power overseas, but they are unlikely to produce serious results in the foreseeable future. Read more...