In recent years, technological competition has definitively shed the mask of the “free market” and stepped onto the stage in full geopolitical attire. Where discussions once centered on globalization and mutual benefit, the dry language of restrictions, lists, and licenses now prevails. Export controls and trade investigations have ceased to be the dull accounting of…
The Economic Arithmetic of Alliance Expansion The United States is entering a phase of industrial policy in which factory walls once again become symbols of national virtue, while external supply chains are treated as a suspicious excess. The return of production to domestic territory and the contraction of external industrial commitments predictably reduce the space…
Sanctions Become Building Material In 2025, Chinese companies purchased $38 billion worth of Western chipmaking equipment — even as Washington continued to publicly proclaim “total control.” In reports, this looks like a leak, but in reality it’s an act of revelation — a demonstration of how sanctions have turned into a profitable export of ideology….
