THREAD: @SenatorAndyKim’s 10/8 speech at the @HarvardIOP is a model for fellow members of Congress who seek to develop a more thoughtful, coherent, and sustainable China policy. The opportunity and imperative to craft such a policy are growing. youtube.com/watch?v=ARtvhvl8… [1/16]

Thank you for the warm welcome, @profLind. I very much look forward to comparing notes and learning from your insights.

“Young people fear they are being treated as collateral damage....With many white-collar jobs expected to be the most exposed to AI replacement, a college degree may not be the ticket to employment it once was.” ft.com/content/0a86d4f5-6046…

“[T]he U.S. and China will still be the major economies in 25 years....It’s not a race between the two that either can win....the worst possible outcome for Australia is for China and the U.S. to become more adversarial.” theguardian.com/australia-ne…

Isabella McCallum: “With less direct experience of China, Congress will become more reliant on second-hand information for one of the country’s most consequential relationships.” scmp.com/news/china/diplomac…

Henry Farrell, @ANewman_forward, and @YelingT warn that as Chinese companies “wean themselves from U.S. products,” Washington will have “less influence over Chinese technological development and more reason to worry about future Chinese aggression.” foreignaffairs.com/united-st…

.@leahyjoseph and @Urbandirt discuss the mounting economic challenges that China confronts as well as officials’ hope that surging exports and investment in high-tech sectors will help it avoid Japan’s experience. ft.com/content/512ef255-89c2…

“Sunvozertinib, made by...Dizal Pharmaceutical, isn’t the only treatment drawing patients to China. Americans, Europeans, and others are trekking there to enter clinical trials for CAR-T therapy, an area in which China has become a world leader.” washingtonpost.com/health/20…

A vital paper by @stephenwertheim “Not only do today’s external threats register as less pressing and menacing than Cold War communism did, but U.S. global power now rests on a different and more attenuated relationship with the American body politic.” carnegieendowment.org/resear…

I very much look forward to this conversation with @profLind on 10/26. Please consider joining us in person if you’ll be on campus that day (you can also register at home.dartmouth.edu/events/ev… to see the livestream). Thanks very much for hosting, @DartmouthDickey and @jqasociety.

My colleague @AliVaez writes in the new issue of @ForeignAffairs: “Such is the paradox of this conflict. Both sides have emerged weaker. Neither can win. But they fight on regardless, because they find the alternatives to be completely unpalatable.” foreignaffairs.com/iran/new-…

.@ashajadeja “There is a tendency in Washington to view every discussion of AI safety through the lens of competition with China. Beijing likewise suspects that American safety proposals are merely an attempt to preserve U.S. technological advantage.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/…

Gideon Lewis-Kraus: “[I]t’s incoherent to consider any given chip-industry node in isolation. The semiconductor supply chain is a planetary superorganism with its own ecology. It’s not like a plant that can be casually repotted.” newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…

Belatedly sharing @mchorowitz’s important piece. “Iran has shown that weaker states are no longer priced out of the military power game, and the United States has discovered that stronger states are not guaranteed the upper hand in major battles.” foreignaffairs.com/iran/how-…

A growing number of countries are attempting to hedge against overdependence on either U.S. or Chinese companies and platforms. While these kinds of ultimatums may achieve limited short-term results, their net impact is likely to diminish over time. ft.com/content/d1e28d93-8574…