Nury Turkel

Humbled to announce my book, “No Escape” is available for pre-order w/ @HarperCollins bit.ly/3588PD0. Never expected to write a memoir this early in life & it has not been a solitary effort. Hope readers will no longer feel separate from/ indifferent to #UyghurGenocide.

@USTradeRep Greer interview worth a listen in full, esp. on China: 1. Strategic goal is a managed trade relationship where US and China agree on what we buy and sell each other and in which trade is predictable. (FWIW, I agree with Greer that a highly managed trading relationship is the best near/mid-term outcome for U.S.-China trade). 2. Under this approach, the U.S. will buy "low tech consumer goods," potentially some "commodities" that the U.S. doesn't have, etc. China will buy Boeings, medical devices, pharma, ag commodities. (I assume energy as well, though Greer did not mention it specifically). 3. Trade will be managed by a Board of Trade, the launch of which will be a Trump-Xi summit deliverable. 4. Greer cannot "pre-judge" whether the forthcoming Section 301 investigation will fully restore the 20% tariff rate on China that existed prior to the Feb. SCOTUS decision. (Legally, this is true, Greer can't pre-judge a 301 investigation outcome). 5. That said, both the U.S. and China are seeking "stability" and "continuity" and the U.S. wants to reduce the trade deficit and is committed to protecting its domestic economy. 6. Probably no more ministerial-level meetings prior to the Trump-Xi summit, with negotiations being handled by Deputies and staff. Greer said that he has not heard any discussion of pushing the summit back further beyond mid-May.

NEW: As Canadian lawmaker casts doubt on forced labor in Xinjiang, goods made by a sanctioned Xinjiang paramilitary group with alleged forced labor ties are widely sold in Canadian supermarkets. Full article, paywall removed: thewirechina.com/2026/03/27/can…

Nvidia CEO speaks about the one skill that will matter most

Meet @ElsaJohnson, an American undergraduate junior at Stanford University who faced transnational repression (as well as her family!) from the Chinese Communist Party including online and physical surveillance on campus. Our universities have become soft targets for foreign espionage and gateways for our adversaries, and they need a serious wake-up call to address these significant national security threats.

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says the race to beat China in manufacturing can’t just be won by competition at this rate. “I think you have to use industrial policy now—I say that reluctantly.”

I enjoyed speaking with @rachel_cheung1 at @thewirechina for this deeply researched story stock-taking the state of U.S.-China competition in AI services. "In the early years of the AI boom, the race was about designing more capable systems,” says Ryan Fedasiuk, a fellow at the @AEI. “Now the capability is here and so the question is one of markets, of services, and of selling a product.” “Which AI platforms are being used has direct implications for privacy, for data security and for national sovereignty,” says Fedasiuk. “To actually get to that point where more people are using your services, you need reliable input at different layers of the AI stack" — energy, infrastructure, computing power, model architectures, and applications. But "based on all available indicators," says Fedasiuk, "I expect China will not be able to produce a sufficiently large amount of computational power on par with the U.S.-led ecosystem until at least about 2028.” thewirechina.com/2026/03/22/sco…

How is AI making foreign influence campaigns more dangerous? Graphika's Vice President of Intelligence Tyler Williams tackled that question with @CNN's @GiannaToboni for a new edition of CNN Explains. Likely all of us, he shared, have come across inauthentic content online - even if we didn't realize it at the time. To watch the full segment, log onto the CNN app or click the link below and enter your TV provider: cnn.com/videos/title-2…

I would not sleep on this one and make fun of it too much Highlighting privacy violation, above the myriad of things you can highlight about AI, is a very shrewd tactic to reach across the political spectrum and build bipartisan support

On Thursday, Senior China Studies Fellow Dr. @He_Shumei joined Jamestown President @PLMattis at the @VoCommunism Museum to discuss her new book, China’s Mobilization State. The conversation unpacked how the Chinese Communist Party is consolidating power at home while positioning itself to reshape the global order.

Huge AI chip bust announced this evening involving the co-founder of Super Micro. With @KalleyHuang nytimes.com/2026/03/19/tec…

On Tuesday, I testified before the House Homeland Security Committee on China's strides in robotics and AI. I warned that we lost solar, batteries, and EVs -- now we're at risk of losing robotics and AI. If that happens, it would irreversibly change the balance of power. Five points: 1️⃣ China aims to win the next industrial revolution. PRC leaders believe history is shaped by industrial revolutions. The first, steam power, made Britain dominant. The second and third, electrification and mass manufacturing, made America dominant. China is determined to win the fourth. 2️⃣ In robotics, China is already winning. In 2024, China installed 300,000 new industrial robots. America installed 30,000. China now has over 2 million robots in its factories — five times more than the US. A decade ago, it imported 75% of its robots. Today it makes 60% domestically. This year alone, China may spend $400 billion on industrial policy. The entire US CHIPS Act provided $50 billion across multiple years. If we fall behind here, U.S. reindustrialization becomes farfetched. 3️⃣ In AI, we're ahead — but selling off the advantage. China has more energy, more talent, and makes the edge devices. But America still leads because of chips, according to China's own AI companies. US chips are 4-5x better than China's today. We are debating whether to surrender that edge. 4️⃣ We are inviting risks of cyberespionage and catastrophic cyberattacks. PRC law requires its companies to cooperate with intelligence services and never disclose it. Today's robots carry LiDAR, microphones, and cameras — they are mobile surveillance platforms. But the bigger risk is cyberattack. We know China has compromised our power, gas, water, telecommunications, and transportation infrastructure in preparation for cyberattack. We cannot deploy robots in sensitive facilities from the very country targeting those facilities. 5️⃣ Here's what we must do. Extend ICTS rules to cover Chinese robots. Direct CISA to audit where they're deployed in critical infrastructure. Ban federal procurement of Chinese robotics and AI. Strengthen semiconductor export controls. Stop treating American AI companies with more regulatory scrutiny than Chinese ones. And build allied scale in robotics—a trading bloc with preferential terms for the members that can rival China's scale in in the sector. Thanks to @HomelandDemsIt and @HomelandGOP for the hearing on this topic, and grateful to join @MRobbinsAUVSI and colleagues from Scale and Boston Dynamics for a great discussion.

Huge. Super Micro's co-founder indicted for chip smuggling. Earlier this month I wrote about how another server maker, Lenovo, was duped into selling chips that were illegally transshipped to China. Will @BISgov tighten KYC rules for the server makers? cnbc.com/2026/03/19/us-…

Three Charged with Conspiring to Unlawfully Divert Cutting Edge U.S. Artificial Intelligence Technology to China “The indictment unsealed today details alleged efforts to evade U.S. export laws through false documents, staged dummy servers to mislead inspectors, and convoluted transshipment schemes, in order to obfuscate the true destination of restricted AI technology—China,” said John A. Eisenberg, Assistant Attorney General for National Security. “These chips are the product of American ingenuity, and NSD will continue to enforce our export-control laws to protect that advantage.” 🔗: justice.gov/opa/pr/three-c…

"Hundreds" of proxies. Right here in the US. @IvanCNN reports. The FBI's latest warning about China's operations on American soil. From harassment to high-tech surveillance, the tactics are evolving. Watch the interview here: youtu.be/BXj0qBJ2X7U?si…

@jackclarkSF @AnthropicAI Congratulations, Jack! What a brilliant move for tackling AI's societal impacts. Excited to see what heterodox ideas emerge from this. @jackclarkSF

AI progress continues to accelerate and the stakes are getting higher, so I’ve changed my role at @AnthropicAI to spend more time creating information for the world about the challenges of powerful AI.

The Department of War weaponizing its procurement process against Anthropic is an example of the U.S. government bringing the economic weapons of war it has for decades deployed abroad back to the homefront. The strategic concept of U.S. economic coercion has been chokepoints: finding an asymmetric economic chokepoint, and weaponizing it to gain leverage over adversaries. U.S. financial dominance, particularly in payments, is the basis for U.S. financial sanctions. U.S. technological dominance in tech like semiconductors is the basis for U.S. export controls. DoW is finding a domestic economic chokepoint, the scale of federal procurement, and weaponizing it against an American company. DoW is not simply saying "we will not buy Anthropic," which would be well within DoW's rights. Instead, DoW is leveraging its purchasing power to try to block other private companies from buying Anthropic. It is a similar approach to the one against law firms last year--leveraging the fact that major law firms need access to regulatory processes to pressure them into agreeing to the government's terms. Or the approach of leveraging NIH funding and possibly visa policy to gain leverage over universities. The U.S. has decades of experience identifying economic chokepoints to serve as a basis for economic warfare abroad. Now it appears to be bringing these tools back home.

Do you realize that DeepSeek is now treated much more kindly by the United States government than anthropic? Dramatically so

I joined @BBCNews AI Decoded yesterday afternoon to break down the Anthropic / DOD Contract Dispute

@JanJekielek Congratulations, Jan. This book tackles an atrocity with the seriousness and clarity it demands.

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