26 December 2025

Sharpening Policies to Deter China

Bishop Garrison

The U.S. is abdicating its role as a geopolitical leader, allowing China to build relationships, technology, and infrastructure that are rapidly expanding and solidifying China’s diplomatic influence and economic power tenfold. From its withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and review of its participation in the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to its reduction of engagement in a variety of international events to include the November 2025 G20 Summit, America continues its current path of international isolationism to its own detriment.

No matter the administration, the U.S. approach to China keeps missing the mark. The Biden Administration took a hardline or “hawkish” approach to China that included heavy export restrictions on cutting-edge technologies in an effort to protect American interests. When U.S. AI companies joined the movement by blocking Chinese developers from accessing their large language models, China’s response was to move forward despite sanctions and do more with less. In a short time, a Chinese startup, DeepSeek, released its own open-source LLM that rivaled U.S. AI capabilities while remaining significantly more cost effective.

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