China

Inside AI Policy featured the Eli Clemens’s recent blog arguing CPSC Should Leverage AI to Modernize Product Safety.

Chinese platforms like Temu, SHEIN, and AliExpress continue to list unsafe products even after U.S. safety warnings, revealing serious gaps in enforcement. The Consumer Product Safety Commission needs stronger authority, better platform cooperation, and AI-driven tools to protect consumers.

The Washington Post quoted Eli Clemens in an article on Chinese e-commerce amidst the Trump tariffs.

Xi Jinping's accelerated timeline to dominate global tech-based industries appears to be a strategic miscalculation. The coming years will reveal whether China can adapt its approach or suffer the consequences of this high-stakes gamble.

China is rapidly overtaking the U.S. in production across many advanced industries. If the United States wants to remain competitive and keep its market share in these industries, it must act now to incentivize R&D investment.

China’s industrial strategy calls for gaining market share in e-commerce to expand its global influence, financial footprint, and ability to compete in AI. Policymakers should act now to avoid leaving U.S. platforms at a structural disadvantage and exposing U.S. consumers to harm.

The Washington Post quoted Robert Atkinson on China’s rise, and continued ambitions, to lead the world in robotics.

Hodan Omaar speaks about China's AI innovation at a panel hosted by the National Press Foundation.

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.

In this episode of the Trade War Podcast from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), host Stan McCoy is joined by Michael Wessel, a senior advisor at the Alliance for American Manufacturing, and Stephen Ezell, vice president of global innovation policy at ITIF.