Stephen Carroll

Off camera, we were talking, you know, I've tried to make sense this week of where the United States currently stands as it relates to China in the context of technology.

Earlier in the program, we spoke with David Sachs about just that.

your sense of the balance right now in closer economic cooperation with China while considering them in the technology context to continue to be an economic adversary?

We're going to hear later in the program from someone who is a China hawk, but maybe a different definition of a China hawk.

That's Vinod Khosla.

The reason I wanted to talk to David Sachs about the Presidential Council of Advisors for Science and Tech is look at who's on it.

Those are companies that either at one time had a big market share in China or would love to export their technology to China.

With something like PCAST, is it realistic that a sitting president's thinking or the policy of the administration of the day actually gets influenced by those that are a part of it?

Let's go back to Iran.

You know, we said that when the president travels to China, depending on where we are in that process, they will likely discuss the war in Iran.

Why does it matter quickly that the U.S.

get China's view on this?

Michelle Gleiter, CEO of the Crack Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue.

It's great to have you back on the show.

Thank you very much.

Sticking with China, we discussed the AI race between the two world powers with Coastal Ventures co-founder Vinod Khosa.

This week, that was on the sidelines of the Hill and Valley Forum.

And here's what he had to say about NVIDIA CEO Jensen Wang celebrating the company's approval to sell AI accelerators to China.

The middle ground... Middle ground's not the right term.

The other consideration are...