2025 Issue 6

Accounts linked to the PRC Government hyped the DeepSeek rollout across multiple social media platforms.  While DeepSeek represents a significant accomplishment for PRC technology innovators, it risks being subsumed by Party and State entities.

McKinsey debates reducing its footprint or pulling out of the PRC as tensions mount between the PRC and the United States.

Just after the imposition of tariffs on the PRC, Peter Navarro, the President’s Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing explained in an interview with Politico the roadmap for the Trump Administration’s trade actions, in particular against China.

Admiral Gary Roughead, former Chief of Naval Operations, explains why the United States must disentangle its defense industrial base from dependencies on the PRC.