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ITIF’s Aegis Project for Defending U.S. Technology Leadership is dedicated to helping the United States prevail in its techno-economic power struggle with China by identifying and opposing domestic and international laws and regulations that undermine the competitive position of major U.S. tech companies. Policymakers must understand that limiting attacks on U.S. tech leaders is critical for America’s global power and leadership.

Hilal Aka
Hilal Aka

Policy Analyst

Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

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Robert D. Atkinson
Robert D. Atkinson

President

Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

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David Moschella
David Moschella

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

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What America Can Learn From China About Big Tech

What America Can Learn From China About Big Tech

America should reconsider its antagonistic approach toward Big Tech, instead forging strategic partnerships with these firms—similar to China's recent pivot—to maintain global technological leadership and competitive edge in critical fields like AI and semiconductors.

Go to the Mattresses: It’s Time to Reset U.S.-EU Tech and Trade Relations

Go to the Mattresses: It’s Time to Reset U.S.-EU Tech and Trade Relations

In its bid for tech sovereignty, the EU has been aggressively targeting U.S. firms and industries with unfair protectionist policies. This cannot stand. To move forward into a new era of deeper transatlantic trade integration, America must first demand a level playing field.

The Conservative Weaponization of Government Against Tech

The Conservative Weaponization of Government Against Tech

Some conservatives have grievances with “Big Tech” companies and would marshal the power of government to punish them. But the policy proposals stemming from this conservative “techlash” would have significant costs for consumers, businesses, and the economy.

America Needs Big Tech to Beat Big China

America Needs Big Tech to Beat Big China

Neo-Brandeisians have launched a campaign to discredit the argument that breaking up or shackling America’s large technology multinationals would be a boon for China. But they’re wrong.

Think Different: Why Progressives Should Stop Bashing ‘Big Tech’

Think Different: Why Progressives Should Stop Bashing ‘Big Tech’

There is much to do to restore the promise of the American dream for U.S. workers. Attacking tech companies might feel good, and even excite some in the progressive base, but it won’t get the job done.

More Publications and Events

September 17, 2025|Events

The Impact of Foreign Regulation on US Technology Leadership and Security

Please join ITIF’s Aegis Project for an expert panel discussion with leaders from the Council on Global Competitiveness and Innovation (CGCI) and Shield Capital as we examine the vital role Big Tech plays in U.S. technology leadership and national security.

August 7, 2025|Blogs

The EU’s DMA Fine Against Meta: GDPR in Disguise?

The European Commission’s DMA action against Meta reveals a strategy of using data protection law principles to stretch competition rules beyond their intended scope—ultimately setting a compliance bar no gatekeeper can meet, infantilizing users, and selectively targeting successful integrated American platforms.

August 4, 2025|Testimonies & Filings

Comments to the Office of Space Commerce Regarding the EU Space Act

Space safety is an important and shared interest of governments, private industry, and consumers around the world. But a regulatory framework for it should be evidence-based and even-handed. If the EUSA proceeds, we can expect the same proliferation of copycat space regulations through the Brussels effect.

August 1, 2025|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles

Big Tech’s Critical Role in America’s National Security Innovation

Policymakers seeking to rein in or break up market-leading tech firms should consider a more balanced approach that recognizes the crucial role they play in strengthening America in its intensifying economic and geopolitical competition with China.

July 24, 2025|Blogs

Korea’s New Fairness Act Risks Chilling Innovation and Derailing Trade Talks

As senior South Korean and U.S. officials prepare to reconvene in Washington, the Korean government’s quiet decision to shelve the Platform Monopoly Act while fast-tracking the Online Platform Fairness Act sends a troubling signal. Though framed as a more balanced alternative, the Fairness Act potentially represents another form of non-tariff attack on U.S. tech firms, posing an even greater threat to innovation, legal certainty, and the broader U.S.–Korea economic relationship.

July 18, 2025|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles

American Tech Companies Are Under Attack in Global Markets

The Trump administration should push back against foreign governments enacting policies specifically tailored to undermine American tech companies and US leadership.

July 10, 2025|Blogs

Brussels Risks Prioritising Symbolism Over Substance in Cloud Procurement

In its push for digital sovereignty, the European Commission is reportedly planning to replace Microsoft Azure with the French cloud provider OVHcloud or another European alternative. But this move, while politically symbolic, would be costly. Far from enhancing security, this migration would sacrifice sound procurement and EU legal obligations in service of a hollow vision of digital nationalism.

July 7, 2025|Blogs

The Tortured Logic of Digital Services Taxes

Policymakers must justify why they should be allowed to tax the major digital companies differently from the leading firms in other industries. This challenge explains why so much of the DST debate has centered around obscure and abstract notions of a company’s “physical presence” and whether the company’s users “create value.”

July 2, 2025|Testimonies & Filings

Letter to the Trump Administration Regarding Non-Tariff Attacks on US Tech Firms and Industries

Foreign governments are systematically deploying policies that constitute non-tariff attacks (NTAs) on America’s leading technology companies. ITIF and other think tank scholars and policy experts urge the administration to put these unfair NTAs on the U.S. trade agenda and insist that America’s trading partners address them.

June 29, 2025|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles

How Should Korea Negotiate With Trump Over Trade?

For Trump, it’s a new world and Korean President Lee Jae Myung and his administration needs to treat it as such by negotiating a new deal that preserves Korean market access to America in exchange for real concessions on what at the end of the day are relatively minor things for Korean economic competitiveness.

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