December 7, 1941, dawned as a seemingly peaceful Sunday in Hawaii, but by its close, the world had irrevocably changed. Without warning or a declaration of war, Imperial Japan launched a devastating surprise aerial assault on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor. This audacious act of aggression, a tactical masterpiece for Japan but [&helli
The Forcing Function: How Western Sanctions Ignited China’s $50 Billion AI Funding Supercycle
BEIJING – In the high-stakes theater of global technology, the law of unintended consequences is currently rewriting the script for the artificial intelligence revolution. For years, Washington’s strategy has been predicated on a clear directive: starve China’s AI sector of the advanced semiconductors and software architecture necessary to achieve
