"Taiwan has lived with the Chinese pressure for decades. But the anxiety today is different because the pressure is no longer only military. It's cyber. It's economic, legal, maritime, disinformation, and diplomatic." @augama on @BBCRadio4

A Quiet Summit Should Alarm Taiwan by @augama wsj.com/opinion/a-quiet-summ… via @WSJopinion

American AI has roughly an eight-month lead over Chinese models. The US should harden how frontier models are built and tested rather than slow capability itself in hopes that Beijing will reciprocate. When Trump and Xi discuss AI this week, the president should make clear that the US will pace the risk, not the race. @augama's latest in @TheNatlInterest: nationalinterest.org/blog/te…

When Trump and Xi meet in DC this week, expect more reassurance, talk of stability, and an emphasis on mutual respect. Trump wants the situation with Taiwan to "stay the way it is." But this assumes China's posture in the Taiwan Strait hasn't changed much. Beijing is on the march. The goal shouldn't be to freeze the status quo, but to change the adversary's calculus on when and whether to move. The only outcome of the summit that matters is whether Xi leaves Washington thinking his timeline for Taiwan has been delayed, @augama argues. Read Hsu's full breakdown of what to watch from the Trump-Xi summit and beyond in @WSJopinion: wsj.com/opinion/a-quiet-summ…

Taiwan faces millions of cyber intrusion attempts while helping power global #AI infrastructure. @BonnieGlaser and @augama speak with Deputy Minister Hou about regulation, resilience, and Taiwan’s role in the digital future. piped.video/watch?v=dfCDVn__…

Read my latest piece on @WSJopinion on Trump-Xi meeting where I argue “staying the way it is” for Taiwan is a trap.

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In the latest #TaiwanFrontlines, @BonnieGlaser and @augama talk with Deputy Minister Hou about Taiwan’s AI Basic Act, sovereign #AI, and the cyber challenges facing democracies. 💻 piped.video/watch?v=dfCDVn__…

China sees the first island chain as an integrated theater. Beijing is applying simultaneous coercion to intimidate allies without engaging in direct combat, @augama explains.

For those gorging on free or cheaper Chinese AI models, be careful. Don’t you understand that Chinese companies will raise their prices or restrict their models? Don’t you understand that it will be very complicated and expensive to replace your Chinese AI model when this happens? Don’t you think this is by design? Don’t you understand Beijing did took similar steps with solar panels, telecom and equipment, and critical minerals? Great op-ed by @augama

Fund a contract to train an advanced open-weight model, with the weights permanently open. Finance the #full-stack abroad with #trusted allies — chips, storage, compute — not the model alone.

The United States has never dominated in technology by locking its platforms away. It dominated by making its platforms the ones the world’s developers chose to build on. So the answer is to #outbuild, not to block:

dependence is the strategy.China ran the same sequence with solar, telecom equipment,critical minerals: build the world’s dependence on something cheap, then restrict access once the dependence is real. A country that cannot switch off a foreign model has handed Beijing a grip.

Alibaba’s #Qwen became the most downloaded model family on earth, and why developers have built more than 100,000 specialized models. And much of that adoption is American. Airbnb’s customer service agent runs on Qwen. Cursor built Composer 2 on a base licensed from #Moonshot.

Here is what I think gets missed in this debate. #Openweight models are not a category of software. They are a #foundation. When a company publishes a model’s weights, anyone can download it, run it on their own hardware, inspect it, and retrain it for a specialized task.

My argument is: China spent three years giving its most capable AI away for free, and is now moving to restrict access to its most advanced models. Washington’s instinct will be to answer with a ban. That would be a mistake.

China is beginning to restrict overseas access to some of its most advanced AI models. The US should not respond with a ban of its own. America and its allies should build and deploy their own open-weight models, @augama writes in @nytopinion. Read: nytimes.com/2026/07/23/opini…

Roughly 95 percent of the world's data, from financial transactions to daily messages, travels through undersea fiber-optic cables. They are thin, fragile and almost entirely unprotected from either seismic activity or deliberate sabotage by bad actors. China has sabotaged cables near Taiwan, and Russia has damaged cables in the Black Sea. Now, cables under the Strait of Hormuz are at risk. The US needs punish foreign persons and vessels responsible for sabotaging undersea cables and encourage allies to harden their infrastructure and speed up repairs, Jason Hsu writes. Read @augama's latest in @thehill: thehill.com/opinion/congress…