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It’s Not too Late to Fix the AI Exports Program

The administration must treat the program as economic statecraft rather than a vehicle for green-lighting deals industry would pursue anyway.
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Sanctions Towards Russia Are Not a Strategy: Toward a More Coherent Statecraft

Sanctions have become a weapon of lawfare: a contest over the rule of law, governance models and the integrity of global markets. But systemic corruption cannot be sanctioned.
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From Diagnosis to Deterrence: The Emerging U.S. Response to Adversarial Distillation

Recent U.S. actions are laying the groundwork for imposing costs on Chinese AI labs engaged in adversarial distillation of frontier models.
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The Case for Imposing Costs on China’s AI Distillation Campaigns

The U.S. government should respond to Chinese AI adversarial distillation attacks with a layered set of established legal authorities.
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Caesar Act Repeal and the Syria Sanctions Removal Report Card

Where things stand along the path of Syria sanctions removal and what restrictions remain to inhibit burgeoning investment and development in post-Assad Syria.
U.S. President Donald Trump (R) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) sit across from each other at a long table, each flanked on the right and left side of the image, respectively, by other officials, with three flags each of the United States and China, alternating along the back wall at the far end of the table.

Trump’s Chip Strategy Needs Recalibration

Facing the challenge from China, U.S. technological leadership in the century ahead requires a focused and disciplined strategy coordinated with allies.
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AI Model Outputs Demand the Attention of Export Control Agencies

The conversation about AI and national security must expand beyond semiconductors and model weights to encompass the outputs those technologies enable.
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Export Controls and U.S. Trade Policy: Making Sense of the New Terrain

The Trump administration's use of export controls as leverage in trade diplomacy creates risks for key U.S. national security interests.
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Dueling Strategies for Global AI Leadership? What the U.S. and China Action Plans Reveal

The U.S.-China AI rivalry raises urgent questions for global stability, intensifying fragmentation, chip chokepoints and global AI governance.
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The AI Action Plans: How Similar are the U.S. and Chinese Playbooks?

Despite different rhetoric, Washington's & Beijing's AI Action Plans converge on the need to advance AI adoption, expand diffusion, & manage risks.
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Assessing the Trump Administration’s AI Action Plan

Unpacking the Trump administration's AI Action Plan — what’s new, what’s not, and what’s next.
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The Trump Administration’s AI Action Plan Is Coming. Here’s What to Look For.

From export controls to the U.S. workforce, the plan’s decisions will have major consequences for the country’s AI development & deployment.
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