By Ruby Osman, Dan Sleat | September 3, 2025
Despite Russia's obvious economic dependence on China, the Chinese are not yet dictating outcomes, and Russia is not acting like a junior partner. Political, historical, and geographical factors on each side ensure that nothing about the relationship will be simple or straightforward.
”You wanna be able to set guardrails,” Hegseth told The Daily Signal Saturday evening. “Given the innovation capabilities of the United States of America, we also wanna maintain an advantage, and ensure that we can utilize that advantage responsibly as well.”
Americans want China out of the land, the supply chain, and the phone. The agreement is broad, and it is defensive.
Xi asked whether America would defend Taiwan. The President preserves the ambiguity by design, the public by indecision.
China’s framework focuses heavily on content control, political compliance and algorithm oversight. More than 860 generative AI services have already been filed with regulators
To the Mogambo Guru, the Federal Reserve were a gang of drunken arsonists locked inside the nation’s monetary basement, ecstatically spraying gasoline on the future while court economists in bespoke suits assured the public there was nothing to worry about.
This isn’t a story about weakness. It’s a story about what happens when every institution that once made hardship survivable is now removed at the same time, and the market for chemical sedation expands to fill the void.
