The CCP is trying to win the race for the future and control new technology. For freedom’s sake, we can’t let it win. What do Chinese spy balloons, shipping cranes, and ChatGPT have in common? They all give us a glimpse into the coming conflict with China over the future of artificial intelligence (AI) – and the future of freedom. ChatGPT is, ...

What we saw at the G-20 summit in Bali was a diminished Biden and a lean and hungry Xi. At the G-20 summit in Bali, we've seen the first face-to-face meeting between the weakest American president since Jimmy Carter, and the toughest and most powerful Chinese leader since Mao. Of course, it was a debacle, with Biden trying to pretend ...

A quantum satellite uses photons that are inextricably linked or "entangled" by quantum physics, to communicate with a ground station. The quantum-entangled link allows for the teleportation of information at the speed of light, but also means that any attempt to intercept the signal immediately severs the link, making hacking impossible. ...

It’s about more than money. The U.S. needs a strategy to harness private innovation. It’s been 60 years since President John F. Kennedy declared “we choose to go to the moon.” In a landmark address at Rice University on Sept. 12, 1962, Kennedy affirmed America’s commitment to the space race with the Soviet Union. Seven years later, Neil ...

Forty years of failed U.S. policy have led to this precarious moment for the embattled island democracy. Thankfully, it’s never too late to change course. Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan was a watershed event, and not just because it provoked an angry military response from Beijing that threatens to renew fears of a shooting war ...

Putin seeks domination of the increasingly important region, and the Chinese are also trying to muscle in. Three Russian submarines, seemingly equipped to carry 16 ballistic missiles with multiple nuclear warheads, simultaneously broke through the ice near the North Pole in March 2021. The boats were soon joined by two MiG-31 aircraft and ...

Today is World Quantum Day. It's the brainchild of a network of quantum scientists from more than 65 countries, including the U.S., aiming to promote and raise awareness about quantum technology–not just quantum computing but the whole range of applications and uses from sensing to communications, and hack proof quantum-based cybersecurity, ...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shown the world drones’ power to change the way wars are fought. America should take note. The most unlikely hero of the war in Ukraine has been a drone — or, to use the Pentagon’s preferred term, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The Turkish-made Bayraktar TB-2, a medium-altitude, long-endurance drone that’s ...

The U.S. and NATO could send a flotilla to the Black Sea region and also set up a humanitarian sealift. Most proposals for military aid to Ukraine involve help from the air, such as establishing a Berlin-style airlift, flying in warplanes from Poland, and creating a no-fly zone over Ukrainian territory. But it would be a serious blunder to ...

As in 1932, the electorate is in the mood to punish the party in power for its general incompetence. We may be on the verge of the most consequential U.S. political realignment in almost a century. The cause is Covid—or to be precise, the mishandling of the pandemic response by government, media and the scientific establishment. As the ...

Had enough disruption? After COVID, riots, inflation, and busted supply chains, you'll probably answer, yes enough for my lifetime. But things are just getting started. Here's my predictions about the three technologies that will cause explosive disruption in 2022 (one of them very literally), with reverberations that will continue through ...

It was Napoleon who advised generals, "Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in." That's where we are now when it comes to quantum security. As the possibility of a future quantum computer attack on our financial infrastructure and/or power grid looms closer, and the dire consequences of ...

"Q-Day" is the term some experts use to describe when large-scale quantum computers are able to factorize the large prime numbers that underlie our public encryption systems, such as the ones that are supposed to protect our bank accounts, financial markets, and most vital infrastructure. That's a feat that's all but impossible for even ...

The CEO's of America's biggest banks and financial institutions—Bank of America, Citigroup, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo–are getting a grilling today up on Capitol Hill. They'll be asked about why they've made so much money during COVID; and why they aren't loaning out more money to help us recover from COVID; ...

America dodged a major cyber bullet this past weekend, although the end-result of the ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline has been disruptive enough, producing economic shock across the country and gas lines in the Northeast. Still, if the still-unidentified hackers had wanted to break into the technology operating the pipeline, instead ...

America, and the world, are confronting a microchip shortage that's retarding the ability of economies to come back from the COVID-19 virus, and affecting every economic sector from automobiles and smart phones to TV's and game consoles. It began last year – Apple, the world's biggest buyer of semiconductors to the tune of $58 billion ...

Big news in the microchip war between the U.S. and China broke last week. American semiconductor giant Intel will be building a new $20 billion facility in Arizona-consisting of two new semiconductor fabrication facilities, or fabs, which will produce advanced semiconductor chips. Intel already runs four other fabs in Arizona, including Fab ...

Millions without power; stores and banks shut down; vital services running on emergency generators if at all; lines of hapless people waiting for food and water. The experience that the state of Texas underwent this February will be only a preview of what we would all face in the event of a major cyberattack on our ever-vulnerable energy grid. ...

The successful vaccine program followed the model of U.S. mobilization in World War II. Every day new questions and criticisms arise about Operation Warp Speed, the public-private vaccine development initiative launched by presidential order in May 2020. Most of that criticism focuses on the distribution bottlenecks that have developed ...

For more than thirty years the U.S. has led the world in the design and production of microchips-the essential tool of all digital technology from smart phones and computers to the power grid and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Now China is spending $1.4 trillion to become the Colossus astride the global high-tech frontier, including dominating ...

Semiconductors are essential to our modern way of life. How and where they’re made is a looming national-security crisis. Whoever is elected president in November will have to confront one of the most important economic and national-security issues of our time. And it’s embedded in every one of our computers, our phones, and every devices ...

We don’t usually think of Ivanka Trump as a key scientific advisor to her father. But when it comes to quantum information science, she’s been a leading point-woman in pushing the country to embrace the next big scientific and technological breakthrough in the 21st century: quantum computers and quantum-based communications. Ivanka helped ...

Why has the Trump administration declared war on TikTok, your teenager’s favorite new app? Understanding why the administration is making the right move in taking on this Chinese-owned software company, is a powerful parable of why we and the rest of the West find ourselves at this moment, not just in the global competition with the world’s ...

Any new industrial policy has to make the U.S. less vulnerable to Chinese suppliers. The American economy is in a double bind. On the one hand, Covid-19 has made it necessary to reduce American dependence on China’s economy, and Chinese manufactured imports in particular. The alarm over China’s stranglehold on America’s access to ...

“This is war.” That was President Trump’s remark on Friday, as he appointed Dr. Peter Navarro, head of the White House Manufacturing and Trade Policy, as the man to lead our health care production effort against the coronavirus. That appointment is the clearest indication yet that America is using the model of our mobilization during World ...

I predicted in December 2018 in this column, that 2019 would be the year of America’s Quantum Leap. Certainly the development of quantum computers continued apace, but there were also some key events that year that demonstrated that quantum technology is here to stay and will decisively shape all our futures. They also demonstrate that this ...

Google claims supremacy, but the risk remains that U.S. complacency lets China crack all its codes. Google announced last month that it had achieved “quantum supremacy,” demonstrating the potential of a new kind of computer that can perform certain tasks many orders of magnitude faster than the most advanced supercomputers. It’s a crucial ...

Roosevelt reluctantly unleashed industry to win World War II, thereby laying the groundwork for America's economic recovery.

If President Obama still wants to turn our economy around, it's time for him to act more like Franklin Roosevelt—but not in the way he might think. It takes a special kind of courage for a president to abandon a failed approach to economic policy and then embrace its ...