Blindly embracing academic cooperation with China, our greatest geopolitical rival, is absurd. Nobody suggests we train Iranian nuclear physicists or Russian ballistics engineers. Why make an exception for a nation seeking to crush us in emerging tech?

My recent argument in @WSJopinion comes not from arrogance but from humility. The scientific race is too close and the stakes are too high to keep playing the game on Beijing’s terms.

Moreover, how many top STEM students (not senior researchers) is the PRC recruiting in those fields where they dominate? If training foreign PhDs were key to scientific dominance, why isn’t Tsinghua educating our top kids from MIT and Georgia Tech?

Consider the analogy — should our response to Sputnik have been to give visas to more Soviet PhDs?

We need to secure our research enterprise precisely because the PRC is both a global rival and a science superpower. In the present system where academic exchange takes place when and how the CCP wants, that helps the PRC gain, maintain, and extend their lead. That’s even more

THREAD: This makes the right point on Chinese scientific prowess and then completely misses the point on what our response should be.

Thank you Korea🇰🇷

Friends don’t let friends become Chinese billionaires. https://t.co/qjA7omiZSa

Much like Hamas did before Oct. 7, Beijing is signaling that it is preparing for war. The Israeli defense establishment never truly believed Hamas would launch a full-scale invasion - until it did. Are we falling into the same trap with China and Taiwan?

THREAD America should learn 4 things from Hamas's attack on Israel: 1. The hypothetical war can actually happen 2. Economic logic will never trump ideological fanaticism 3. If the US doesn't enforce red lines, it opens the door to the unthinkable 4. Deep social solidarity is

Your most important lesson for today by my @HudsonInstitute colleague @RepGallagher -

From @WSJopinion: Beijing is signaling that it is preparing for war, as Hamas did before Oct. 7, 2023. Israel got complacent, thinking war would never come. Are we doing the same with Taiwan? asks @RepGallagher.

Two years ago, Hamas poured across Israel’s border, kidnapping, raping and killing civilian men, women and children. In @WSJopinion, I outline how Israel’s bitter October 7th experience offers warnings for our own potential reckoning with China.

Palantir and @BoeingDefense are committed to delivering dominant capabilities to the warfighter to deter conflict and defend the homeland. This partnership will turbocharge production and innovation, allowing Boeing and Palantir to bring cutting-edge technology to current and

Innovative companies like @PalantirTech understand the importance of maintaining American maritime dominance. Enjoyed meeting with friend and former colleague @RepGallagher to see how Palantir intends to transform and modernize the shipbuilding industrial base.

We have to find a way to revitalize American manufacturing, and that’s where I think AI has so much promise. Far from being a threat, AI can be an Iron Man suit that we wrap around every American worker to help them make more money and become incredibly more productive.

From 9/11 to AI: @RepGallagher joined @jordanchirsch on our Working Intelligence Podcast to explain why American ingenuity rises to meet every challenge. His message: AI won't replace American workers—it will amplify them. In his time in Iraq and Congress, Mike has seen

A sweeping cyberattack by a group known as Salt Typhoon is China’s most ambitious yet, experts and officials have concluded after a year of investigating it. It targeted more than 80 countries and may have stolen information from nearly every American. To steal a line from one

Launching today. https://t.co/IdnMGcu1Qt

.@L3HarrisTech and @PalantirTech are combining cutting-edge hardware with dominant software to help warfighters see better and act faster. Great to join former House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry and L3Harris Communications Systems President Sam Mehta at

Great decision by @SecNav to create the Naval Rapid Capabilities Office. This exactly what we need to streamline decision-making, expedite development of war-fighting technologies, and help prevent World War III.