Are We Ready? | The U.S.-China Chip War, With Chris McGuire

Chris McGuire, senior fellow for China and emerging technologies at the Council, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss whether U.S. efforts to deny China advanced semiconductor chips will sustain the U.S. lead in artificial intelligence or unintentionally accelerate Chinese innovation.

This is the fifth episode in a special series from The President’s Inbox, bringing you conversations with Washington insiders to assess whether the United States is ready for a new, more dangerous world.

Mentioned on the Episode:

Bethany Allen and Jenny Wong Leung, "Trump's Crackdown on Chinese Students Ignores a Startling New Reality (nytimes.com/2025/10/19/opinion/chinese-student…)," New York Times

Raffaele Huang, "Chinese Officials Urge Firms to Shun Nvidia AI Chip (wsj.com/tech/ai/china-nvidia-ai-chips-fbdbc30a…)," Wall Street Journal

Arjun Kharpal, "China’s Key Weapons in Its AI Battle With the U.S.—Massive Huawei Chip Clusters and Cheap Energy (cnbc.com/2025/11/07/chinas-strategy-in-ai-race…)," CNBC

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The President’s Inbox at: cfr.org/podcasts/tpi/are-we-ready-us-china-chi…