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Should the U.S. Start a Trade War with China over Tech?
Commentary
Just as China pursues asymmetric strategies in the military domain, using cheaper missiles and mines to offset expensive American carriers and bases, so too is it pursuing asy...
By Rush Doshi & Elsa B. Kania
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China and the Race for Artificial Intelligence
Video
Watch Elsa Kania, Adjunct Fellow, Center for a New American Security speak along with Nick Zhang, CEO, Wuzhen Institute on the Chinese race for superiority in artificial ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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New Frontiers of Chinese Defense Innovation: Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Technologies
Commentary
Will the Chinese military succeed in advancing new frontiers of defense innovation? China has already emerged as a powerhouse in artificial intelligence and quantum technologi...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Analysis on UN Certain Conventional Weapons Convention
Podcast
Join Kara Frederick, from the Technology and National Security program at CNAS, in a discussion with Mary Wareham, Paul Scharre, and Elsa B. Kania on the key takeaways of the ...
By Kara Frederick, Paul Scharre, Elsa B. Kania & Mary Wareham
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Beyond Cold War: Paradigms for U.S.-China Strategic Competition
Commentary
Beijing has long called for the United States to abandon what it calls its “Cold War mentality” (冷战思维). Today, that critique, long a staple of official Chinese propaganda, is ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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China’s AI talent ‘arms race’
Commentary
Perhaps, the real ‘arms race’ in artificial intelligence (AI) is not military competition but the battle for talent. Since the vast majority of the world’s top AI experts rema...
By Elsa B. Kania
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The Pursuit of AI Is More Than an Arms Race
Commentary
Are the U.S., China, and Russia recklessly undertaking an “AI arms race”? Clearly, there is military competition among these great powers to advance a range of applications of...
By Elsa B. Kania
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China’s Strategic Ambiguity and Shifting Approach to Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems
Commentary
On April 13, China’s delegation to United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on lethal autonomous weapons systemsannounced the “desire to negotiate and conclude” a new prot...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Careful what you wish for—change and continuity in China’s cyber threat activities (part 2)
Commentary
At a time when ‘cyber anarchy’ seems to prevail in the international system, the emergence in 2015 of US–China consensus against ‘cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property’...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Careful What You Wish for—Change and Continuity in China’s Cyber Threats (Part 1)
Commentary
Although there’s been a discernible reduction in the magnitude of Chinese cyber intrusions in the past few years, the threat has been transformed, not diminished. While US dip...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Much ado about Huawei (part 1)
Commentary
Huawei has provoked recurrent concerns and generated nearly incessant controversy in recent news cycles. In the US, the potential for Huawei to dominate 5G network services wa...
By Elsa B. Kania
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China’s Quest for Political Control and Military Supremacy in the Cyber Domain
The People’s Republic of China seeks to contest information dominance (制信息权) and discursive dominance (话语权) in cyberspace. For the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), cybersecurity...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Is China seeking “quantum surprise?”
Hype about artificial intelligence (AI) seems at or near a peak. A wave of hype is also emerging around quantum technologies, particularly quantum computing. When these two wa...
By Elsa B. Kania
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China’s AI Agenda Advances
Commentary
Are China’s ambitions to “lead the world” in artificial intelligence (AI) by 2030 credible? China’s rapid emergence as an AI powerhouse is often hyped and sensationalized, var...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Strategic Innovation and Great Power Competition
At this time of disruptive transitions, the new U.S. National Defense Strategy rightly recognizes that the character of warfare is changing due to the advent of a range of dis...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Chinese Sub Commanders May Get AI Help for Decision-Making
What can we learn from a recent news report that China is seeking to develop a nuclear submarine with “AI-augmented brainpower” to give the PLA Navy an “upper hand in battle”?...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Tech entanglement—China, the United States, and artificial intelligence
Commentary
In Washington and Beijing’s complex bilateral relationship, artificial intelligence has emerged as a new domain of both cooperation and competition. Even as China and the Unit...
By Elsa B. Kania
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“Unmanned, Intangible, Silent Warfare” – New Threats and Options for Taiwan
As the character of conflict is transformed by the advent of robotics and artificial intelligence on the battlefield, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) recognizes and...
By Elsa B. Kania
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The Human Factor in the “Unmanned” Systems of the People's Liberation Army
Commentary
Even as the character of conflict is transformed by the advent of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) on the battlefield, the human factor is no less important in this m...
By Elsa B. Kania
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China Is On a Whole-of-Nation Push for AI. The US Must Match It
China has made no secret of its ambitions to lead the world in artificial intelligence, nor of the military and geopolitical advantage it hopes to gain from this rapidly advan...
By Elsa B. Kania
