Publications

How China’s systematic campaign to dominate strategically important industries threatens America’s technological leadership, economic strength, and national security—and what U.S. policymakers should do about it.

The share of enterprises using AI to address these cybersecurity challenges more than doubled between 2021 and 2025, reaching 5.3 percent, or approximately one-quarter of all enterprises using AI.

We cannot close the digital divide without identifying its causes and tailoring policy interventions to prioritize its largest causes and wind down policies that address issues that are no longer substantial problems. Therefore, NTIA should tailor and deepen the survey’s ability to track the causes of the digital divide and define the characteristics of broadband that bridges that divide.

The most important techno-economic policy issue America faces is how its economic system should operate and be governed. The answer is neither market capitalism nor societal capitalism nor socialism. Only national economic power capitalism can provide the framework necessary to avoid losing the techno-economic war to China.

Policymakers lack the comprehensive data needed to understand how AI is affecting employment, wages, productivity, and the tasks workers perform. To close these gaps, federal statistical agencies should improve AI-related data collection, link technology adoption to employment outcomes, and make better use of private-sector data

The West must once again embrace technological progress and mount a robust intellectual attack on the forces of stasis. The alternative is decline.

Major agreements, new participants, and key diplomatic and industrial milestones in the U.S.-led Pax Silica initiative, which aims to secure global supply chains that underpin AI and other advanced technologies.

From 2020 to 2025, China's National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) approved 94 novel oncology drugs, surpassing the 87 approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Korea should pass a coherent digital asset framework that gives firms room to build and compete. Restrictions on stablecoin issuers and crypto exchanges should demonstrate measurable public benefits.

Science and math skills drive innovation and economic growth. However, U.S. students are not performing particularly well, especially when compared with China. Policymakers should view improving achievement in these subjects as key to maintaining the nation’s long-term economic and technological competitiveness.