Trump Under Pressure From All Sides over Chinese AI Surge
The article says U.S. policy changes in Europe, Armenia and Azerbaijan could expose China’s overland trade routes and raise the cost of war.
- U.S. strategists identified Eurasian trade routes as a key lever to raise the expected costs of a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan, strengthening strategic pressure points across Eurasia to complicate Beijing's economic resilience.
- China is constructing the Northern Corridor through Russia, the Middle Corridor stretching more than 4,000 km through Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, and a new railway through Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan to reduce dependence on maritime chokepoints.
- Yerevan's constitutional reform linked to historic territorial claims remains the final obstacle to a peace agreement with Azerbaijan that would stabilize the Middle Corridor, giving the U.S. and Europe greater influence over a corridor Beijing views as insurance against maritime disruption.
- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent this week threatened sanctions against China over illicit distillation of American AI systems, as the Trump administration weighs restrictions on Chinese models like Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 that Anthropic formally accused Chinese firms of copying.
- By increasing uncertainties over energy security and trade resilience, the U.S. shifts deterrence strategy from military concentration in the Taiwan Strait to strategic influence across Eurasia, complicating Chinese President Xi Jinping's cost-benefit calculations regarding Taiwan.
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