If the decision is serious, the analysis behind it has to be too.
Most China analysis in English is a summary of a summary. Someone reads a press release. Someone summarizes it. Someone comments on the summary. By the time it reaches a decision-maker, the information is three layers removed from the source. And weeks late.
I decode Chinese government documents in the original Mandarin. Map the strategy buried inside. Brief you before the translation exists.
The same method found a $5.2 billion chip packaging strategy export controls can't touch. Buried in MIIT filings.
The same method mapped the Planning Law that restructured how Xi Jinping enacts legislation. Page 47 of a document nobody finishes reading.
Same method. Different documents. Your question is next.
Briefed the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the National Security Council, and the State Department on Chinese AI strategy and emerging technology competition.
Senate briefings on US-China technology competition: semiconductors, the Planning Law, and digital infrastructure strategy.
Submitted written evidence on PRC technology strategy to the Business and Trade Committee. Briefed members on Chinese AI strategy, the Planning Law, and supply-chain exposure.
Four extended Track-2 sessions with senior counselors at the embassy in Washington, covering AI strategy and US-China technology competition.
Returning speaker at Davos in 2024, 2025, and 2026. 14 sessions in three days at WEF 2026. Co-authored the Davos 2025 Futures Beyond Our Times whitepaper on climate and AI.
Briefed the Norwegian Embassy on China's regional strategy from MOFCOM primary-source documents. Coordinating allied-nation policy work as AI Council Chair, United World Leaders.
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"Excellent work, very relevant."Deputy Senior Director · National Security Council
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"You also write beautifully."Master of St Edmund's College · University of Cambridge
"This is the kind of analysis that should be required reading in DC but probably never will be."Laura Ferraz Baick · What Just Happened in AI
"Your level of focus and inspection is quite brilliant but you also write so incredibly well."Chris Tottman · The Founders Corner®
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