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(A) National Defense and Foreign Policy

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    • 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

    What Went Wrong After 9/11 AA

    By William A. Galston Sept. 8, 2026

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    By William A. Galston Sept. 8, 2026 – A series of errors over a quarter-century leaves the U.S. in dire need of rebalancing…. On Sept. 10, 2001, the U.S. was at the peak of its post-Cold War dominance. Our response to the attacks … began a process that diminished our status, step by step…. the decision to wage expensive wars in the Middle East while cutting taxes disrupted the … hard-won return to fiscal discipline. … our excessive focus on the Middle East diverted us from the most important foreign policy challenge of the 21st century—the rise of China. Read More