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The real US-China AI race is in documents nobody reads. I translate both sides weekly. pacificdivide.io

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How Massachusetts Could Lead on Human-Centered AI

I promised readers an analysis of this bill when it was filed.

A Chinese Model Did American Forensics

And Beijing filed loss of control under ethics. Two AI safety taxonomies, one blind spot.

The Rise of Digital McCarthyism

OpenAI's new Head of Strategic Futures, Dean Ball, just wrote the textbook demonstration of digital McCarthyism

China Registered the Humans Last Year. Yesterday It Registered the Machines.

While the West debates whether AI is conscious, China decided where it stands.

China Doesn't Control Rare Earths. It Controls Everything That Turns Them Into Products.

How a seven-layer architecture filed across government documents reveals a chokehold that $7.3 billion can't break.

Beijing Published the Blueprint for a National AI Agent Operating System. Nobody in the English-Language Press Covered It.

What a buried MIIT document reveals about China’s real AI infrastructure strategy, and why it matters more than any model benchmark.

Fable 5, Trump, and the Law That Didn’t Exist: Inside the Shutdown Beijing Saw Coming

On June 12, 2026, the Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to pull its most advanced AI models off the market.

The Purple Collar

Six engineers at Fort Meade, thirty-one million workers in China, and the job America refuses to name.

Collective Individualism and the Future of Human Knowledge

What Chinese AI Philosophers have already answered and what the Western debate has never even asked.

Collective Individualism

There is a room in every Catholic church that exists for no other purpose than to make honesty possible.