Research
This report analyzes the U.S.-China contest over artificial intelligence (AI) and China's “all in” open-source approach, reflecting fundamentally different theories of how AI leadership is won.
China’s approach operates in two reinforcing loops: a digital loop of open-model innovation and rapid, community-driven iteration, and a physical loop of large-scale deployment across manufacturing, logistics, and robotics that continuously generates real-world data to improve AI capabilities.
Hearings
The hearing examines how Chinese investment models and influence in Latin America are evolving, explores China's influence toolkit, economic coercion tactics, role in dual-use ports, and connections to transnational crime, and reviews how Chinese activities affect the regional economic and security environment and U.S. interests.
Research
China helps Iran evade U.S. sanctions and maintain its destabilizing activities in the Middle East. Iran supplies China with relatively low-cost oil and is a partner in China’s efforts to undermine the U.S.-led global order, including through alternative multilateral organizations such as BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
Research
Beijing’s approach to spectrum management has been poorly understood, but it offers important lessons regarding the benefits and drawbacks of a relatively centralized, civilian-led approach. This report therefore investigates how China manages its electromagnetic spectrum, how that spectrum is used, how China’s approach to spectrum management is impacting global standards, and what benefits (and costs) China’s approach has offered.
Research
This Spotlight updates previous work the Commission published in July 2025 on China's exploitation of scam centers in Southeast Asia. It analyzes new developments that pose challenges to U.S. efforts to combat scam centers and policies the U.S. government can pursue policies to stay ahead of these emerging trends.
Appearance
Commissioner Reva Price testifies before the Joint Economic Committee at a hearing on the threat posed by overseas scam compounds, coordination among federal agencies to combat scams, and the economic toll of fraud on Americans.
China Bulletin
Highlights include: China Escalates Drone Operations Against Taiwan, Tests Deception Capabilities; China Expands Crypto Ban to Emerging Products; Continuing Rise in Unprofitable Zombie Companies in China Underscores Economic Troubles; Even the IMF Warns China's Market Distortions Causing China Shock 2.0; U.S. and Taiwan Reach Trade Agreement; Alibaba's Latest Qwen3.5 Model Signals Continued AI Momentum in China
Appearance
Vice Chair Mike Kuiken and Arun Seraphin of the National Defense Industrial Association call for stronger U.S. investment in research, manufacturing, quantum technology, and global talent to counter China’s innovation and industrial advances.
Hearings
The hearing examines how China is challenging long-standing U.S. advantages in the undersea domain, explores China's military strategies for the undersea domain, assesses how emerging technologies could counter U.S. superiority, and evaluates China's expanding activities involving undersea critical infrastructure and deep-sea resources—including submarine cables and seabed mining.
Appearance
Chair Randy Schriver and Vice Chair Mike Kuiken join host Ilan Berman on the Great Power Podcast to discuss the Commission’s 2025 Annual Report to Congress and the emerging domains of U.S. competition with China.