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Politicians Want a Trade War With China, Americans Don’t

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The Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek is now the most downloaded app in 140 markets worldwide, including Apple’s App Store and Alphabet’s Android Play Store. To say American consumers are enthused about China’s recent breakthrough in artificial intelligence is an understatement, given this vast popularity. This dovetails with U.S. consumers’ love of TikTok — an […]

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TikTok’s Actual Offense? Innovating While Not Being American

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Ten days ago the shares of Nvidia corrected 17 percent. How could this have happened to such an “owned” and analyzed company? The answer, at least as of now, is that surprise over inexpensively trained and very capable DeepSeek forced investors to at least rethink Nvidia’s long-term dominance.  The news on January 26th gave investors

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The Rise of DeepSeek Is Unreservedly Bullish For the U.S.

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Oil is the most important commodity in the world when it comes to human flourishing, and nothing else comes close. Stop and think about how intensely inconvenient and impoverished life would be without the goods and services made possible by oil, along with the remarkable advances in work productivity that never would have happened

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Contra the Washington Post, Exports Are a Bullish Sign of Imports

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“The world is being swamped with Chinese goods, and the United States, Europe and Japan are right to worry about it.” Those are the opening words of a recent Washington Post editorial about Chinese production. The bet here is that the writers of the editorial could be persuaded to rethink their pessimism. Production is always bullish, by definition.

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An Envious U.S. Political Class Protests the Chinese Eating

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“The greatest fever of all was aspiration, a belief in the sheer possibility to remake a life.” That’s what Evan Osnos wrote in Age of Ambition, his remarkable 2014 book about life in emerging China. Osnos reported that as of 2014 the Chinese were second only to Americans when it came to the purchase of

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The Sickening Cruelty of Life When China Was Actually Communist

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Bikes were “as indispensable to a Chinese as a car to twentieth century Americans.” Those are the words of Fox Butterfield from Alive In the Bitter Sea, his 1982 book about communist-era China. Call Butterfield’s account of just some of communism’s myriad horrors essential reading when it comes to attaining a tangible grasp of how

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Joe Biden’s Protectionism Threatens Our National Security

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The legendary Boeing 747 was a brilliant consequence of six million different parts produced by man and machine around the world. Absent this wildly sophisticated division of labor, 747s wouldn’t exist. Construction of them would be way too expensive. Which is the point. When people the world over are free to blend their remarkably

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With Marco Rubio’s Plans, Who Needs Central Planning?

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“But in May 2015, Beijing went public with a 10-year plan to dominate high-value, high-technology sectors – with the unspoken goal of destroying America’s economic supremacy.” Those are the words of protectionist Florida Senator Marco Rubio from an opinion piece published in the Washington Post. On their own they require a pause. As history

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