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Summary Something unusual happened this week that connects a stock market listing in Shanghai to a decades-old research program funded by the United States Army, and the connection matters far more than it might first appear. A Chinese company called Unitree Robotics, which makes robot dogs and humanoid robots, began trading on the Shanghai Stock Exchange this week. Its stock surged as much as…
Foreign Affairs Forum | Dr. Antonio Bhardwaj (Dr. 🆎)| August 20th, 2026 Introduction On the same day this week that China’s Unitree Robotics made its trading debut on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, surging as much as 629% and closing with a market valuation of roughly $50 billion, Reuters published an investigation that should trouble anyone concerned with the durability of American technological…
Summary Something important happened in the world of computer chips this week, and it is worth explaining simply because it affects far more than the technology industry. In 24 hour period in August 2026, four separate stories broke that, taken together, tell us where the real competition in artificial intelligence is now happening. It is no longer mainly about which company has built the smartest…
Foreign Affairs Forum | Dr. Antonio Bhardwaj (Dr. 🆎)| August 20th, 2026 Introduction The global semiconductor and supercomputing landscape crossed an inflection point in the third week of August 2026, one that future historians of the artificial intelligence era may come to treat as a discrete inflection rather than a routine news cycle. Within a single 24-hour window, Samsung Electronics…
Foreign Affairs Forum | Dr. Antonio Bhardwaj (Dr. 🆎)| August 19, 2026 Executive Summary The 19th of August 2026 will likely be remembered not for a single dramatic event but for the visible convergence of several slow-moving fractures in the international system. The United Arab Emirates has severed all trade and financial ties with Iran following missile strikes near its maritime approaches,…
By Dr. Antonio Bhardwaj (Dr. 🆎) Executive Summary For the past few years, most people have followed the artificial intelligence race as a simple question: which company has built the smartest model. That question no longer captures what is actually happening. The real competition between the United States and China has moved beyond any single chatbot or model. It now covers who controls the…
Foreign Affairs Forum | Dr. Antonio Bhardwaj (Dr. 🆎)| August 18, 2026 Executive Summary The contest for artificial intelligence supremacy between the United States and China has entered a new phase. What began four years ago as a race to build the most capable model has evolved into a contest over the entire scaffolding that surrounds intelligence: safety architecture inside frontier…
Executive Summary Several dangerous situations around the world are unfolding at the same time this week, and they are more connected than they might first appear. In the Strait of Hormuz, the United Arab Emirates says Iran attacked two of its oil company’s ships. In the Black Sea, Ukraine has offered Russia a deal to stop attacking each other’s civilian ships. In Washington, President Trump has…
Foreign Affairs Forum | Dr. Antonio Bhardwaj (Dr. 🆎)| August 14, 2026 Executive Summary The convergence of five distinct crises across the global landscape on a single day in mid-August 2026 illustrates a structural transformation in international affairs: military and economic competition among major stakeholders is increasingly being waged through control of chokepoints, critical technologies,…
Summary A plain-English explanation of why china’s AI ambitions carry deep dangers for the regime itself At first glance, China looks like a country winning the artificial intelligence race. Its companies release powerful AI systems that hundreds of millions of people around the world are downloading and using. At a major conference in Shanghai in July 2026, President Xi Jinping stood before world…
