Writing
Council on Foreign Relations: There’s A Cop In My Pocket: Policymakers Need to Stop Advocating Surveillance by Default.
Encryption, cybersecurity, and technology policies, like the RESTRICT and EARN-IT Acts, with nonexistent tradeoffs address symptoms, not problems, and they do it badly. August 28, 2023 Blog Post by Tarah Wheeler and Geoffrey Cain...
German Marshall Fund: Next Generation Perspectives on Taiwan: Insights from the 2023 Taiwan-US Policy Program
Not So Fab: The Current CHIPS and Science Act Fails to Address Problems HamperingGlobal Supply Chain Cooperation By Geoffrey Cain AUGUST 16, 2023 Three years into the construction of a new plant for the giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in the...
American Affairs: North Carolina and the Regional Roots of American Industrial Strategy
by Geoffrey Cain American Affairs Summer 2023 he engine of innovation exists in space and quiet. The North Carolina Biotech Center is nestled behind layers of birch trees, on a spacious modernist campus where rustling leaves and birds pierce through the silence....
Written Testimony for U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law
June 13, 2023 Geoffrey Cain, Senior Fellow, Foundation for American Innovation “America, the Vanguard of Democracy, Must Stand Up to China’s AI Totalitarianism”Chairman Ossoff, Ranking Member Blackburn, and members of the Subcommittee:Thank you for the opportunity to...
The Dispatch: Microsoft Issues Warning About Chinese AI That Microsoft Helped Create
The company’s China outpost has trained scientists who’ve gone on to work for top surveillance companies. By Geoffrey Cain The Dispatch May 11, 2023 Schoolchildren walk below surveillance cameras in Akto, south of Kashgar, in China's western Xinjiang region. (Photo by...
The Persuasion: The Left, TikTok, and the World’s Biggest Police State
If you are reluctant to criticize China, you are no friend of social justice. By Geoffrey Cain Persuasion April 12, 2023 A Uyghur woman going through an entrance to a bazaar in Hotan, in China’s northwest Xinjiang region. (Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images). In 2017, I...
American Affairs: The Purges That Upended China’s Semiconductor Industry
Winter 2022 / Volume VI, Number 4 by Geoffrey Cain Once a technology star, Zhao Weiguo rose fast and fell hard. For the last eight years, Zhao’s semiconductor manufacturer, the Tsinghua Unigroup, had fanfare, ambition, large-scale state backing, and an...
The Free Press: How China Got Our Kids Hooked on ‘Digital Fentanyl’
TikTok is a national security threat. By Geoffrey Cain November 16, 2022 Visitors visit the booth of Douyin (Tiktok) at the 2019 Smart Expo in Hangzhou, China. (Costfoto/Future Publishing via Getty Images) The midterm elections of 2022 were many things—a shocker...
The Wall Street Journal: ‘The Titanium Economy’ Review: Making It in America
Supply-chain issues are about more than keeping shelves stocked. ‘The American spirit,’ the authors remind us, ‘is about controlling one’s destiny.’ By Geoffrey Cain Oct. 12, 2022 (PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES) After many grueling nights designing and building a car...
Written Testimony Before the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
Social Media’s Impact on Homeland Security Geoffrey Cain, Senior Fellow for Critical Emerging Technologies, Lincoln Network September 14, 2022 Chairman Peters, Ranking Member Portman, and Members of the Committee:It is an honor to be invited to testify here on social...