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Eight Actors, One Broken Assumption: Comparing the World’s Foremost AI Action Plans and Strategies (opens the original)
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SCSP is excited to announce the launch of Evaluating AI Action Plans: The Global AI Policy Landscape! This new interactive experience lets you explore, compare, and stress-test the national AI strategies of eight of the world’s most consequential actors — the United States, China, the European Union, the United Kingdom, India, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Japan. We encourage you to explore the dashboard and let us know what you think.
Is China Having an AI Safety Debate? (opens the original)
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Hello, I’m Ylli Bajraktari, President of the Special Competitive Studies Project. In today’s newsletter, director for global partnerships Channing Lee discusses why the AI safety debate in China looks different than the conversation happening across America.When Xi Jinping left Washington last week, he seemingly took home two AI deliverables. The White House announced that the two governments agreed to create a “<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/09/fact-sheet-president-donald-
Who Evaluates the Algorithms Running the Country? Look No Further Than NIST. (opens the original)
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I’m Ylli Bajraktari, President and CEO of the Special Competitive Studies Project. In a previous newsletter, “The Standards Road to Shanghai,” I argued that standards are a tool of national power: countries that help write the rules shape markets, build partnerships, and turn technological advantage into lasting influence. This week, Rama Elluru, Jenilee Keefe Singer, and I bring that argument home. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) turned 125 this year. This issue looks
The President's Tech Brief: Xi's Week in Washington (opens the original)
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It’s been eleven years since a Chinese leader made a state visit to Washington. This week Xi Jinping got the honors, the dinner, a proposed AI dialogue, and a trade truce running on a two-month fuse.This week on the President’s Tech Brief, we covered the summit across both episodes — Tuesday before the handshake, Thursday as it happened. Dr. Seth Center describes what these talks look like from inside the room. Liza Lin brings the view from Beijing. Mike Kuiken and Josh Hodges discuss what the U
ISF Voices 2026: Adaptive Education Policy for a Technological Future (opens the original)
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In this special edition of SCSP’s newsletter, we continue our ISF Voices series, showcasing writing by alumni and fellows in SCSP’s International Strategy Forum (ISF) program. Each piece reflects the unique vantage points of emerging leaders from around the world working to shape the future of geopolitics, technology, and democracy.Today’s piece is by Jeremiah Sekyi, a 2026 ISF Fellow, a Schwarzman Scholar, a world champion public speaker, and the founder and director of The Speech Factory, wher
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