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Pax Silica: Under Secretary of State Jacob Helberg on the AI Race and Economic Security [[link removed]]

Tomorrow, January 29, at 2:00 p.m. [[link removed]], Jacob Helberg, the under secretary of state for economic affairs, will join Hudson for a discussion on the multilateral Pax Silica initiative, America’s strategy to win the global artificial intelligence race, and the Trump administration’s economic statecraft strategy.

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Xi Jinping Is More Intent on Personal Political Power than State Capacity [[link removed]]

John Lee [[link removed]] argued on Sky News [[link removed]] that leadership purges in Beijing suggest that President Xi Jinping is removing political and military officials who may oppose a Taiwan invasion. This is a sign Xi is prioritizing the consolidation of his own power over the competence of his government, Lee said.

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The Rise of the Tech Hamiltonians [[link removed]]

Walter Russell Mead [[link removed]] identifies a powerful coalition on the American right: a group of technology, finance, and business leaders best understood as the successors of the Hamiltonians for their continued commitment to the mutually beneficial relationship between an enterprise-friendly state and a dynamic private sector.

But these new “Tech Hamiltonians” reject much of the traditional approach. They are nationalist, rather than cosmopolitan. They do not see the European Union as America’s preferred partner abroad, and are focused on geopolitical and economic competition with China. And they believe in their own visions for the world and the transformative power of technologies like AI to realize them.

In The Atlantic [[link removed]], Mead explains the rise of this coalition and how it is reshaping American politics.

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US TikTok Deal Falls Short [[link removed]]

On PBS News Hour [[link removed]], Michael Sobolik [[link removed]] explained why the US deal to take control over the Chinese app TikTok does not go far enough to protect Americans from the Chinese Communist Party’s influence operations.

“The real concern here isn’t the data that it’s being trained on. It’s what the algorithm is emphasizing or censoring,” he warned.

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Addressing Security Needs in the Arctic [[link removed]]

At the World Economic Forum, President Donald Trump reassured Europe that the US would not take Greenland by force.

While analyzing the president’s speech on PBS News Hour [[link removed]], Rebeccah Heinrichs assessed American interests in the Arctic and Washington’s role in the current global order.

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Before you go . . .

Europe does not currently have an adequate force posture to secure Greenland, a key location for the defense of the US homeland and many of its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies.

On BBC Radio [[link removed]], Ezra Cohen [[link removed]] explains that Trump’s negotiation tactics regarding the island reflect that the US has a strong hand, both militarily and economically, and that the White House will not shy away from applying pressure to protect US interests.

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