Report: China's AI Push Threatens US Tech Dominance
The report highlights risks from Chinese AI dominance including surveillance and military expansion and calls for U.S. policy to maintain leadership and set global AI standards.
- Recently, the Center for Security Policy released a report by Dr. J. Michael Waller arguing Chinese Communist Party control of AI threatens U.S. sovereignty and global stability.
- Beijing's 2017 national AI development plan aims for leadership by 2030, supported by the National Venture Capital Guidance Fund worth 105 billion and state-guided investment.
- China’s 1.4 billion population fuels unmatched data and talent generation, while the U.S. leads AI compute with 39.7 million petaflops versus China’s 400,000 petaflops despite China holding 46% of AI data clusters.
- Waller recommends strengthening U.S. counterintelligence, protecting intellectual property, and expanding domestic energy and data centres, crediting the Trump administration’s 2025 AI Action Plan for boosting competitiveness.
- Authors describe a shift toward techno‑nationalist globalization, with risks including surveillance, propaganda, military expansion, and control over supply chains for raw materials and semiconductors by the Chinese Communist Party.
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The AI race has become a new Cold War between China and the United States. The stakes are who will dominate the future of artificial intelligence and global security.
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