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Principles of Government

Anthropic’s IPO Will Be a National-Security Win for Taiwan

By By Joseph C. Sternberg Oct. 29, 2026

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By Joseph C. Sternberg Oct. 29, 2026 – The AI boom changes that calculation in several ways, as crystallized in Anthropic’s public offer. First, it is now obvious that Taiwan’s manufacturing capacity is essential to America’s ability to remain in the lead on AI…. Beijing’s leverage vis-à-vis Taiwan always rested on the notion that the island was too small to be worth a significant expenditure of U.S. resources to defend. Taiwan has now become too important to a leading U.S. industry for Washington to ignore. Read More

Taiwan Is the Key to AI Dominance AA

By Alexander Benard and David Feith May 13, 2026

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By Alexander Benard and David Feith May 13, 2026 – The island is much more than a bargaining chip. It’s the center of the world’s most important tech stack…. Mr. Trump has rightly put AI dominance at the center of his national strategy. AI will shape economic growth, military advantage, medical innovation, intelligence collection and geopolitical influence. But America can’t win the AI race if it treats Taiwan as a bargaining chip. For the foreseeable future, Taiwan’s autonomy is a prerequisite for U.S. AI dominance. Read More

A Plan for the Western World’s Revival AA

By Jamie Dimon Sept. 28, 2026

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By Jamie Dimon Sept. 28, 2026 – America’s global leadership rests on three pillars. If any one of them fails, it could doom the whole enterprise. The first pillar is maintaining the world’s pre-eminent military. The second is remaining the world’s pre-eminent economy, which is foundational to having the pre-eminent military. (The U.S. dollar’s role as the global reserve currency depends on both pillars.) The third pillar is reinvigorating the American …values …. We must rededicate ourselves to the values and principles that made this nation great, including free enterprise. Read More

AI and the Growing Threat to Taiwan AA

By By Mike Gallagher Sept. 24, 2026

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By Mike Gallagher Sept. 24, 2026 – China’s drive to dominate the technology and the island nation is the biggest threat humanity faces…. “whoever wins AI, whoever wins super intelligence, wins,” … if so the odds on winning Taiwan are becoming too good for Mr. Xi to pass up. … this island has become the single point of failure in the single most important technology the Communist Party wants to dominate. Washington, Silicon Valley and Wall Street need to recognize this shift in Beijing’s decision-making as the cost of not taking Taiwan may soon exceed the cost of taking it. Read More

The Best Defense Against AI Is AI

By John O. McGinnis Oct. 15, 2026

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By John O. McGinnis Oct. 15, 2026 – slowing down AI may delay defenses against AI that the wrongdoers already possess or will acquire regardless of what we do….This point is even clearer when it comes to geopolitical threats. The U.S. government could take advantage of models from frontier companies…. This access could give the U.S. a military advantage that may be decisive in this technological age. And because other nations know this, they may be deterred from attacking in the first place…. Frontier AI is itself a firewall. Slowing its development can postpone new defenses and leave existing threats in place. A slowdown can cost protection as well as progress. Read More