DeepSeek – Complex Challenge to America

The challenge posed to America by China’s DeepSeek artificial intelligence (AI) system is profound—it calls into question the U.S.’s overall approach to confronting China. DeepSeek offers innovative solutions starting from an original position of weakness. America believed that by monopolizing the use and development of sophisticated microchips, it would forever cripple China’s technological advancement.   […]

China’s Good Tidings for the Year of the Snake?

China might be off to a good start in the Year of the Snake. Three recent events could set a positive tone for the next twelve months: AI, Myanmar, and Hong Kong. The future remains highly volatile because of Beijing’s adversarial relationship with Washington, an open war in Ukraine, and massive instability in the Middle […]