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Beyond the China IP Theft Narrative

While Chinese IP theft remains an important challenge, it is an insufficient framework for understanding modern China's relationship with IP.

Commentary by Chris Borges — September 24, 2026

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Director, Center for the Industrial Base and Senior Fellow, Defense and Security Department

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Beyond the China IP Theft Narrative

While Chinese IP theft remains an important challenge, it is an insufficient framework for understanding modern China's relationship with IP.

Commentary by Chris Borges — September 24, 2026

Beyond the Memory Cycle: AI, HBM, and the New Semiconductor Shortage

AI-driven demand for high-bandwidth memory is reshaping the semiconductor memory market, creating shortages across industries and raising new questions about U.S. supply chain resilience, investment, and the risk of future overcapacity.

Report by Sujai Shivakumar, Charles Wessner, and Thomas Howell — September 17, 2026

Don’t Slow Down AI Development—Speed Up Benchmarking

Ben Jensen and Yasir Atalan argue that the United States should stop debating how fast to build and start funding independent benchmarking—through NSF, NIST, and university policy labs.

Commentary by Benjamin Jensen and Yasir Atalan — September 17, 2026

Lessons from Covid-19 for Global Health Security

Health access is fundamentally a systems challenge that depends on the interaction between the innovation system, which generates new technologies through research and investment, and the delivery system, which manufactures, distributes, and administers medicines.

Report by Anne Pritchett, Alexander Kersten, and Shruti Sharma — August 27, 2026

Government Lending 2.0: Putting a Price on Policy Risk

As federal credit becomes increasingly utilized, federal agencies need a framework to quantify policy risk and create a common language to balance strategic priorities with financial risks.

Commentary by Adam Frost and Jack Whitney — August 12, 2026