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Congressman Rich McCormick on Securing American AI Leadership [[link removed]]

Last week, President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping negotiated a temporary détente in the trade war between China and the United States, including a pause on Beijing’s critical mineral export restrictions. At Hudson [[link removed]], Congressman Rich McCormick (R-GA) emphasized that the US needs to leverage free-market principles to secure vital tech supply chains like critical minerals and sustain America’s leadership in artificial intelligence.

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False Patriots [[link removed]]

America also faces an ideological challenge at home. Tucker Carlson, whom Trump described as “kooky” when the two disagreed over Iran policy in June, has become a key conduit for antisemitic ideas in the US. But, as Liel Leibovitz [[link removed]] explains in First Things [[link removed]], the real goal of Carlson and other right-wing influencers appears to be undermining American optimism while cozying up to the United States’ worst enemies.

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Ten Steps to Pressure Russia Back to the Negotiating Table [[link removed]]

The United States’ recent sanctions on two Russian oil giants will help stifle collaboration between Moscow and Beijing and slow Russia’s war machine. But the Trump administration can still do more to force Vladimir Putin to come to the negotiating table. Luke Coffey [[link removed]], Thomas J. Duesterberg [[link removed]], and Can Kasapoğlu [[link removed]] lay out 10 steps in a new policy memo.

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Why Chinese Car Investments Are a National Security Risk [[link removed]]

Amid US-China trade talks, David Feith [[link removed]] warns that Chinese car factories in the US could play the role of a “Trojan horse” to make the US auto industry and labor market more vulnerable to Beijing’s economic coercion and political interference.

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New START and Trump’s Nuclear Test [[link removed]]

On the strategic front, China’s nuclear buildup means that America faces two major nuclear adversaries simultaneously. Rebeccah Heinrichs [[link removed]] argues [[link removed]] that, to better resist nuclear coercion from these adversaries, the US should:

Let New START expireModernize the US nuclear triadDouble its order of B-21 bombersAccelerate deployment of a nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missile (SLCM‑N)

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Before you go . . .

Another dimension of the threat China poses to the US is the Chinese Communist Party’s ambition to subordinate all religions to its totalitarian ideals. Bill Drexel [[link removed]] and Grace Drexel argue that the CCP’s latest crackdown, which focused on Zion Church, will backfire. Such crackdowns often strengthen persecuted churches’ networks at home and further tarnish China’s image abroad, they write [[link removed]].

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