Eyck Freymann is a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University and Nonresident Research Fellow with the China Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College. Hugo Bromley is an Applied History Research Fellow at the Center for Geopolitics at the University of Cambridge.

Floor signage for the offices of DeepSeek (C) is seen in Beijing on January 28, 2025. Fears of upheaval in the AI gold rush rocked Wall Street, following the emergence of a popular ChatGPT-like model from China, with US President Donald Trump saying it was a “wake-up call” for Silicon Valley. (Photo by PETER CATTERALL / AFP)

Basic Law Committee member Priscilla Leung says US bill shows American politicians are 'completely ignorant' of the national security law A member of Hong Kong's Basic Law Committee has warned that Beijing could "in theory" take over national security trials in the city if the United States advances a bill to sanction judges,

Trump term mean for Taiwan, especially with a Republican-controlled Congress? After Trump was elected in 2016, he initially tried to use Taiwan to gain leverage over Beijing. After taking a congratulatory call from then-Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen,

A key focus of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to Central America this week — his first trip as America’s top diplomat — will be to counter China’s growing influence in the region, the State Department’s top spokesperson said this week,

Social media exploded in a celebration after the news that a Chinese start-up had made an artificial intelligence tool that was more efficient than any in the United States.

Beijing said Friday the US and China could resolve their differences through "dialogue" and denied deliberately pursuing a trade surplus with the United States.

Days after Chinese upstart DeepSeek revealed a breakthrough in cheap AI computing that shook the U.S. technology industry, the chief executives of Microsoft and Meta defended massive spending that they said was key to staying competitive in the new field.

China's top diplomat held his first phone conversation with the new US secretary of state on Friday, days after Donald Trump's return to the White House brought more uncertainty to relations. Since then,

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As Trump takes aim at global norms and institutions, the question of what parts of the post-Cold War order can be saved – and for whom – requires urgent attention.

The Air Force defends the cost increase on the adaptive engines by arguing that the system is truly innovative. The new engines being developed by Pratt & Whitney, as their name suggests, can adapt their cycle mid-flight, going from low-fuel-consumption for stealth and long-range missions to massive power for aerial dogfights.