Commissioners Aaron Friedberg and Mike Kuiken join the China Global podcast to discuss the Commission’s 2025 Annual Report to Congress, including its key findings, analysis, and 28 key recommendations for Congress.
Commissioners Mike Kuiken and Josh Hodges join the Stimson Center’s Trialogue podcast to discuss the recommendations of the Commission’s 2025 Annual Report and the broader state of U.S.-China relations.
Topics this year include China’s revisionist ambitions with Russia, Iran, and North Korea; China and Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands; how Beijing built its manufacturing and innovation engine; China’s ambitions to dominate space; China Shock 2.0; Beijing’s weaponization of supply chains; China’s electrification drive; and a review of Taiwan, Hong Kong, economics, trade, security, politics, and foreign affairs development in 2025.
China and the United States each recognize the economic and security benefits to be gained by being the first country to harness these varied quantum technologies. In each country, billions of dollars are being invested to advance quantum research, albeit through different development pathways.
Commissioners Livia Shmavonian and Josh Hodges join Professor Yossi Sheffi, Director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, to discuss the 2025 Annual Report’s warning that China has begun weaponizing supply chain chokepoints, from critical minerals to foundational semiconductors.
Commissioners Leland Miller and Mike Kuiken join host Veronica Combs on Quantum Spin to discuss the Commission’s 2025 Annual Report to Congress and one of its top recommendations, a “Quantum First by 2030” initiative.
China is undermining tools of economic statecraft by facilitating sanctions and export control evasion on behalf of Russia, Iran, and North Korea. These autocratic countries increasingly are coordinating efforts to circumvent sanctions and export controls and transact outside of the dollar-based financial system.
Made in China 2025 exemplifies how China’s industrial strategy is a comprehensive mobilization of state resources, private enterprise, and national priorities that has reshaped global technology competition.
Highlights include: Beijing Uses Military Parade to Showcase New Capabilities and Global Influence; Xi Pushes the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to Reshape Role;
SCO Development Bank Takes Aim at Dollar-Based Finance; Chinese Ships Collide in the South China Sea while Harassing a Philippine Vessel; Rare Earth Traceability to Strengthen China’s Export Control Enforcement; China’s Market Sees Stock Rally in August
Vice Chair Randy Schriver and Commissioner Mike Kuiken draw on the Commission’s recent report to warn that scam centers across Southeast Asia, many run by Chinese criminal networks, cost Americans more than $5 billion in 2024 alone.
