The United States and China are keeping an eye on Indonesia’s artificial intelligence potential given the country’s innovation-driven national strategy and flourishing AI industry. China views Indonesia as an anchor for its economic, digital, and political inroads in Southeast Asia and has invested aggressively in new partnerships. The United States, with robust political and economic relations rooted in shared democratic ideals, has an opportunity to leverage its comparative advantages and tap into Indonesia’s AI potential through high-level agreements.

CSET's Will Hunt advocates for the CHIPS Act as part of his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee to strengthen the U.S.' semiconductor industry.

CSET experts predict that by 2025, Chinese universities will outpace the United States' production of STEM PhDs in a new report.

China could graduate nearly twice as many STEM PhDs as the United States by 2025, according to a new CSET report.

CSET's Anna Puglisi discusses China's counterintelligence efforts in the private sector and academia in her testimony before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

In her testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, CSET Senior Fellow Anna Puglisi discussing U.S. implications if China loses its "technological edge" to China.

CSET Helen Toner weighs in on the Biden administration's China tech policy amidst the ongoing U.S.-China strategic competition.

As dual-use technologies transform the national security landscape, the U.S. Department of Defense has established a variety of offices and programs dedicated to bringing private sector innovation into the military. However, these efforts have largely failed to drive cutting-edge commercial technology into major military platforms and systems. This report examines the shortcomings of the DOD’s current approach to defense innovation and offers recommendations for a more effective strategy.

For the first time, a Chinese company—Huawei—is set to lead the global transition from one key national security infrastructure technology to the next. How did Washington, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, fail to protect U.S. firms in this strategic technology and allow a geopolitical competitor to take a leadership position in a national security relevant critical infrastructure such as telecommunications? This policy brief highlights the characteristics of 5G development that China leveraged, exploited, and supported to take the lead in this key technology. The Huawei case study is in some ways the canary in the coal mine for emerging technologies and an illustration of what can happen to U.S. competitiveness when China’s companies do not have to base decisions on market forces.

AI technologies will likely alter great power competitions in foundational ways, changing both how nations create power and their motives for wielding it against one another. This paper is a first step toward thinking more expansively about AI & national power and seeking pragmatic insights for long-term U.S. competition with authoritarian governments.