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If the policy framework is right, AI infrastructure can strengthen the electricity grid rather than strain it, stabilize prices rather than inflate them, and transform heat and flexible demand into system assets.

Sales of Chinese hybrids and plug-in hybrids in Europe increased by a factor of 14 between August 2024 and August 2025

Countries in the Global South are key markets for Chinese and U.S.-allied national power industries, which require scale economies to flourish. U.S. policymakers should stop viewing them as a “backyard” and recognize that they are a key battlefield in an industrial war.

The Trump administration’s Section 232 pharmaceutical tariffs will needlessly raise drug costs, harm U.S. patients, and undermine both domestic manufacturing and global biopharmaceutical innovation, while better policy options exist to strengthen the industry without these damaging side effects.

Fixing the EU’s productivity, innovation, and competitiveness crisis requires a fundamental political reorientation. Until it makes that shift, expect more reports, more tinkering, and more decline.

While false “Made in USA” claims are a real problem, the solution is not holding online marketplaces liable but strengthening data infrastructure and verification systems that enable regulators, consumers, and AI tools to more effectively identify and enforce legitimate claims.

The Commission should modernize its satellite market access framework by applying the ECO-SAT reciprocity test to all foreign-licensed satellite systems seeking U.S. market access, regardless of WTO membership status.

Canada Post’s cost structure no longer scales in a low-volume world. Labour flexibility, automation, work sharing, retail consolidation, and parcel growth are necessary to reduce the cost of reaching every address while preserving universal service.

Some proposals would give too much power and discretion to the CMA, create unnecessary costs, potentially chill procompetitive behavior and investment, increase unpredictability in the UK’s merger control regime, and needlessly expand the CMA’s powers to investigate algorithmic behavior in ways that could harm UK consumers.

Boosting U.S. competitiveness in national power industries is necessary, but not sufficient to avoid losing to China. America also must take measures to slow the PRC’s progress toward global dominance. This report provides more than 100 actionable recommendations for the administration and Congress. Western allies should take many of the same steps.