In his first term, Donald Trump launched the United States’ tech competition with China through tariffs, subsidies, and export controls, especially on microchips, which continued during the Biden administration. Writing for the Financial Times, author of Chip War and AEI Nonresident Senior Fellow Chris Miller assesses how the second Trump administration might reset or intensify these policies.
In addition to competition with China, Trump will reenter office facing a Middle East transformed by the collapse of Bashar al Assad’s dictatorship in Syria. Hal Brands analyzes the dramatic geopolitical consequences for the region and the US as Iran and Russia’s “Axis of Resistance” lies in ruins. On the domestic front, if Trump wants to maintain the newfound support he won in the election, he will need to pursue policies that make Americans' lives better over the next four years. AEI Economic Policy Studies Director Michael R. Strain explains why populist policies will not accomplish this objective and points toward more constructive alternatives the administration should advance. The election also provides an opportunity to reorient K–12 education curricula away from harmful ideologies and critical theory. In testimony before the House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, charter school leader and AEI Senior Fellow Ian Rowe demonstrates why teaching history needs to “inspire a reverence for liberty and the American experiment.” On December 11, AEI President Robert Doar hosted a screening of the new Wall Street Journal Opinion documentary “Get the Jew”: The Crown Heights Riot Revisited. Watch the documentary here and then watch Doar’s conversation with filmmaker Michael Pack, The Wall Street Journal’s Elliot Kaufman, and the Manhattan Institute’s Rafael A. Mangual on the riot and its legacy. |