Bryan Burack

Decoupling Commandments: 1. The US and China are decoupling. The US and the free world will be defeated and vassalized if we pretend this isn't happening.

@PeterMeijer Walking through a room that you’ve renovated yourself, that your family enjoys, is a special satisfaction.

If it would take me >10x longer than a pro to fix, requires costly tools I’d rarely use, and/or I might kill myself in process (looking at you, garage door spring!) then yea I’m calling a guy. All other scenarios are a chance to expand knowledge/gain skills/save money.

I cannot comprehend this mindset. There are plenty of areas where I lack mech skill, or places where I call in a pro, but between ChatGPT and Harbor Freight there is no excuse to be un-handy. How could you respect a man who can’t hang a picture or troubleshoot a toilet?

You've seen the story that the Headhunters have been retained in recruiting Investment Bankers for an Economic Defense Unit. Here's the Deck going out to potential candidates:

This new Chinese AI model was built on PRC-made chips. China will never be addicted to an American tech stack. Selling advanced U.S. chips only helps the PLA catch up. Once China can achieve independence from U.S. chips, it will dump U.S. companies. reuters.com/technology/chi…

“Deindustrialization was not inevitable.  It was a conscious policy choice, a decades-long economic undertaking that stripped our nations of their wealth, of their productive capacity, and of their independence.  And the loss of our supply chain sovereignty was not a function of a prosperous and healthy system of global trade.  It was foolish.  It was a foolish but voluntary transformation of our economy that left us dependent on others for our needs and dangerously vulnerable to crisis.”

Vice President JD Vance announces international plan for critical minerals: “Together, we want members to form a trading bloc among allies and partners. One that guarantees American access to American industrial might while also expanding production across the entire zone.” 🇺🇸

@RapidResponse47 @POTUS chinaselectcommittee.house.gov/media/press-re…

Jensen Huang, since you’re not on X, I’ll tag your company @nvidia. You and your paid minions are fighting to sell millions of advanced AI chips to Chinese military companies like Alibaba and Tencent. I’m trying to stop that from happening. Jensen, if you ever feel like debating the actual facts, I’ll meet you anytime, anywhere. I’m sure any @FoxNews show would love to air it tonight! And every so-called MAGA influencer being paid to push this garbage should be embarrassed. You all copied NVIDIA talking points so much that you all made the same spelling error! But worse, you’re siding with a woke DEI company with transgender bathrooms, and by the way, is the biggest financial supporter of Ilhan Omar. Pathetic. @DOGEai_tx @EYakoby @RobertGrayburn1 @LibertyCappy @FightWithMemes @LauraLoomer @DefiantLs @parscale @alifarhat79 @WallStreetMav modelrepublic.org/articles/right…

Holy cow. It would appear there’s a coordinated campaign against @RepBrianMast’s AI OVERWATCH Act. Whoever is behind this deception campaign is protecting high-end AI chip exports to the Chinese Communist Party. Profits over patriotism.

The Select Committee on China has delivered major bipartisan victories—advancing outbound capital reform, passing BIOSECURE, standing firmly with Taiwan, and exposing how U.S. semiconductor sales have fueled China’s military. That’s bipartisan oversight with impact.

I'm reentering government service today. My last piece of writing for a while: China’s economic coercion leaves the United States—and ultimately, the free world—with only two options: surrender, or fight back. ⬇️

China doubles down on export-led growth model ft.trib.al/X9ex3j9

palmer on reindustrialization

Right now, China is far behind the United States in chips that power the AI race. Because the H200s are far better than what China can produce domestically, both in capability and scale, @nvidia selling these chips to China could help it catch up to America in total compute. Publicly available analysis indicates that the H200 provides 32% more processing power and 50% more memory bandwidth than China’s best chip. The CCP will use these highly advanced chips to strengthen its military capabilities and totalitarian surveillance. Finally, Nvidia should be under no illusions – China will rip off its technology, mass produce it themselves, and seek to end Nvidia as a competitor. That is China’s playbook and it is using it in every critical industry.

My new @nytopinion essay is out today. From my @FDD perch, I argue that Beijing’s furious overreaction to one sentence in Tokyo isn’t a sign of confidence – it’s a sign of anxiety about a closing window on #Taiwan. 👇 nytimes.com/2025/12/02/opi…

At this point I don’t see how any incremental capex in China by US listed companies is not a breach of fiduciary duty.

Hotel California industrial policy

🚨NEW: A coalition of 20+ business leaders, national security experts, and former government officials is calling on Congress to include outbound investment restrictions on China in the FY26 NDAA. America should not bankroll China's war machine.🧵 fddaction.org/press-release/…

The President was right to decline starting B200 sales to China. The CCP refuses 'addiction' to our tech stack, so alleviating China's compute constraints erodes America's AI lead with no lasting benefit. This obvious H200 guerilla marketing campaign would do the same.

@deanwball The difference is that they are the unambiguous antagonists of the 21st century, and we are its unambiguous protagonists.

our glorious public-private partnership, their wicked civil-military fusion