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Cyber-Privateers: China Loots American Intellectual Property
Online vulnerabilities lead to the loss of U.S. intellectual property, which strikes at the heart of our competitive advantage on the global stage. This threat grows with each passing year. ...
Is Elon Musk America First or China First?
The tech billionaire’s relations with President Trump could influence the administration’s China policy more than any other donor or patron. Toward the end of 2024, the SEC filed a lawsuit...
Fifteen Hours of RedNote: What Happened During TikTok’s Short-lived Ban?
TikTok’s short ban for American audiences began a migration from one company with evident ties to the Chinese Government to one that expressly states, in writing, that your information will...
DeepSeek: What We Know And What We Don’t Know
Don’t take all of the claims about China’s new AI model at face value. Following the release of DeepSeek (China’s new AI model), Wall Street experienced an unprecedented sell-off of...
The Supreme Court Judges TikTok
On January 10, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments for TikTok, Inc. v. Garland, which will undoubtedly become a landmark case in both First Amendment and national security law....
TikTok Mastered Mindless Entertainment—and Is Being Punished for It
The U.S. House of Representatives recently voted—swiftly and overwhelmingly—to ban the popular social media app TikTok unless its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, divests ownership within six months. In supporting the...
How Foreign Governments Interfere in U.S. Politics
The Chinese ownership of the video app TikTok—targeted by a bill that the House of Representatives passed with a large bipartisan majority—might indicate a severe concern about curbing the influence...
Litigation Finance Exposes Our Judicial System to Foreign Exploitation
Now that Congress has come to its senses about a forced divestiture plan to uncouple TikTok from the Chinese Communist Party, we’d be remiss not to explore other examples of...
Will TikTok Pay a Price for Spying on Its Users?
Despite numerous scandals and calls for it to be banned, TikTok, the Chinese-owned app, continues to enjoy immense popularity in Australia. ByteDance, the Beijing-based company that owns and controls TikTok, is currently under investigation by...
Re-Industrialization and the Green Revolution Will Revitalize National Power
The COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine mark the end of the post-Cold War era, which was defined by the optimistic idea that globalization creates conditions for lasting...
Why TikTok is a National Security Threat
As the war rages between Israel and Hamas, TikTok’s proliferation of anti-Israel content has reignited the debate about whether the platform should be legal in the United States. While Congress...
Congress as the Achilles’ Heel of America’s China Policy
“Your platform should be banned … TikTok surveils us all and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is able to use this as a tool to manipulate America as a whole,”...