The US defense community is coming to understand that AI will significantly transform, if not completely reinvent, the world’s military power balance.
- Lecturer, University of Aberdeen
Disruptive technology is fundamentally reshaping global security, and potentially laying the ground for a US-China conflict.
In international relations, words matter – and so does the credibility of the speaker.
China’s conventional military assets are intimidating enough, but its latest technological advances could transform the military balance in its neighbourhood.
The US’s military heft in East Asia may have met its match.
Beijing has traditionally retained its nuclear weapons on a no-first-use basis, but it’s ready to deploy them more assertively.
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