Ben Shapiro

And of course, the idea that China wants to coordinate with us on AI is total nonsense.

So there's apparently a conflict inside the Trump administration over cooperation with China on AI.

According to the Washington Post,

As President Trump prepares to travel to a summit in China, his administration is sharply split over a plan to give U.S.

intelligence agencies a bigger role in evaluating AI models.

According to two people familiar with the matter, the White House is grappling with new cybersecurity threats posed by mythos and similarly advanced models.

So again, a lot of people in the administration who are saying that the federal government should take a sharper eye with regard to AI and their models.

And then there are people who say, well, hey, hey, if you use the federal government, particularly if it ends up being turned over to Democrats to basically crack down on AI, you're giving China an advantage, which pretty clearly happens to be true.

So what should we be doing about China?

What should we be doing about China?

Because this has implications for our foreign policy in a wide variety of other spheres.

I've been making the argument for a very long time that what we actually need to do with regard to China is cut them off at the knees.

The best way to do that is to economically isolate them.

This took the fore in 2020 when China unleashed the Wuhan virus on the rest of humanity by lying, by pretending that it was not transmissible human to human, by fibbing to the WHO, which was basically a Chinese front organization at that point,

And a lot of folks correctly pointed out that we have manufacturing chains leading back to China and we need to find ways to actually decouple from China.

This is right.

So what should we be doing?

Well, if we actually want to isolate ourselves from China, if we wish to decouple from China without China eating our lunch with other countries, we need to use both carrot and stick.

That means we need to cut good trade deals with, for example, Canada.

And one of the reasons that I was opposed to President Trump's trade war with Canada is because it would push that government into the arms of the Chinese.