Director of the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation. Author-Cold Peace: China-India Rivalry. Author/Editor-Asia's Quest for Balance. RT≠endorsement.

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‘There is an opportunity for tactical trading with China on certain issues, such as market access or agricultural exports. What I don’t want is to give up strategically important U.S. products. So far, we haven’t seen any major concessions from the U.S., and I hope that holds.’ - @Cold_Peace_ Read our full backgrounder identifying favorable and unfavorable outcomes from the Beijing Summit: heritage.org/global-politics…
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Sorry for leaving you hanging, mate. The sea of toxic comments and anonymous clickbait disinformation accounts that now rule X isn't really my cup of tea. I found new hobbies. I've been moonlighting as a masked vigilante fighting crime in DC. And I started doing pilates.
As a student of geopolitics who has tracked commentaries for nearly a decade, the absence of a major voice that has been pro US-India relations has been missing for nearly a year. @Cold_Peace_ where are you, good sir?
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It was an honor to host China Select Committee Chairman @RepMoolenaar for the @Heritage BC Lee lecture this week. He is leading pushback against the CCP in Congress. In this clip, I use moderator's privilege to discuss China chip controls. Full event: heritage.org/china/event/the…
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“The question isn’t just, who builds the most powerful [AI and biotech] models? It’s, whose values are embedded in them?....  We cannot let [the Chinese Communist Party] write the code that governs human lives.” - @RepMoolenaar
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This chart comes up every few years in my mentions and I need to clear the air once and for all. Yes, that is indeed me. I keep 8 nukes in a storage unit in Fairfax.
Estimates of how many nukes are owned by whom. I am somewhat concerned by some chap called Jeff who has 10 nukes...... he has been keeping quiet about it all this while.
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Trump must protect American AI from China. America enjoys a multi-year lead in cutting-edge AI tech, protected by export controls that prevent China from obtaining the best tech and slow its progress in developing AI with dual-use capabilities. Those controls now need updating.
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If we want India to be a partner on U.S. core interests, we must be a partner to India on its core interests, including terrorism. Otherwise, we will be disappointed. Deservedly so.
‘China is trying to dominate Asia. We need strong allies and no one is going to be stronger than India,” says U.S. Congressman Rich McCormick
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India-Pakistan. Ukraine-Russia. The Drone Age is upon us. And the only people that accurately predicted this was coming was...pretty much everyone, from the moment drone technology was introduced. We can't say we weren't warned.
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Experts took apart some Chinese-made solar panels and found rogue, undocumented communication devices in the power inverters. [Which should surprise no one]. China's response: "We oppose the generalization of the concept of national security" Lol, you can't make this shit up.
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What is this nonsense? Some new genre of bad AI fan fiction?
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Folks are going to get very hung up on whether the U.S. "mediated" an India-Pakistan ceasefire, or just helped bridge the gap and encourage the two to talk. Personally, I don't think it matters much. India was compelled to send a message after Pahalgam and that message was sent. Terror will not be cost-free and future terror attacks will be met with a military response. The fact the guns have gone silent for now is a good thing.
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Jeff M. Smith retweeted
The CCP is exploiting TikTok in the trade war to make Americans more sympathetic to Beijing. It appears to be working. President Trump should enforce the law and take TikTok offline as long as it’s controlled by Beijing. My latest @HudsonInstitute analysis below ⤵️
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Jeff M. Smith retweeted
8 May 2025
You may think that with the whole world paying attention to Pakistan the army may ask the terrorists it has long nurtured to lie low for a bit. You may think it would at least tell uniformed soldiers not to pray alongside a U.S.-designated global terrorist. You would be mistaken.
🔴 #BREAKING Hafiz Abdul Rauf, a US-designated global terrorist and a Lashkar e Taiba commander, leads funeral prayers for those killed in India’s strikes
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Joking aside, I have no idea if any planes were downed. I doubt it's 5 but could it be 1-2? Sure. We just lost a fighter because an aircraft carrier turned too quickly. Shit happens in conflict zones. It's a non-stealth fighter. I just haven't seen any hard evidence yet.
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Give me a break. Pakistan was already backing the mujahideen against the Soviets before the U.S. even got involved. America gave the Pak gov't more money and arms, which the Pak gov't chose to give to the most radical groups. Pakistan chose to back the Taliban in the 1990s for its own reasons, long after we left. Pakistan chose to raise and train Kashmir-focused jihadis for its own reasons. Suggesting all of Pakistan's terrorism problems date back to 10 billion dollars the U.S. gave Pakistan 40 years ago to fight the USSR is lazy and demonstrably false.
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Sky News (@SkyYaldaHakim): “But you do admit, you do admit sir, that Pakistan has had a long history of backing and supporting and training and funding these terrorist organizations?” Pakistan Def. Minister: “Well, we have been doing this dirty work for United States for 3 decades.”
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