China · AI · Governance
The China decision in front of you
depends on Mandarin documents nobody in Washington has read.
I find what's been buried for years.
I brief you before the official translation exists.
Russ Wilcox
Forbes Business Council panelist on US-China AI strategy. Published in the Jamestown Foundation's China Brief. Analysis in The Diplomat. Before the official translation existed. Briefed the National Security Council on Chinese AI strategy.
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The Method
Primary sources. Original language.
模芯云用
mó xīn yún yòng
"model-chip-cloud-application"
1 Read the documents nobody finishes, in whatever language they're written in
2 Find what the summaries miss
3 Publish before the official version exists
4 Brief the people who make the decisions, and the people those decisions affect

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.

These four characters, 模芯云用, encode China's AI strategic architecture. I found them in the 15th Five-Year Plan and published the analysis in The Diplomat before the official English translation existed.

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.

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The Rooms
Defense

Pentagon

Briefed the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the National Security Council, and the State Department on Chinese AI strategy and emerging technology competition.

Policy

U.S. Congress

Senate briefings on US-China technology competition: semiconductors, the Planning Law, and digital infrastructure strategy.

Parliament

UK House of Commons

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.

Diplomacy

Chinese Embassy

Four extended Track-2 sessions with senior counselors at the embassy in Washington, covering AI strategy and US-China technology competition.

Global

World Economic Forum

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.

Allies

Allied Embassies

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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What They Say
Department of Defense
"This is brilliant... a burgeoning threat requiring more urgency and an integrated push from government, industry, and the public."
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy · U.S. Department of Defense
Department of Defense
"Your insights are timely, sharp, and impactful. You deserve more attention and action. Great work."
Chief AI Architect · Department of Defense
National Security Council
"Excellent work, very relevant."
Deputy Senior Director · National Security Council
State Department
"You were the only competent one on that panel."
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
Policy
"FASCINATING... Well written and well argued. Of course I love it."
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend · Former Lt. Governor of Maryland
Industry
"Russ is a brilliant technologist and strategic thinker. His analysis makes impacts across industries worldwide. One of the preeminent minds in AI today."
Vice President · Brown Brothers Harriman
Academic
"You also write beautifully."
Master of St Edmund's College · University of Cambridge
Reader
"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
Reader
"Your level of focus and inspection is quite brilliant but you also write so incredibly well."
Chris Tottman · The Founders Corner®
Media
"A lot of the things you said stayed with me and I actually quoted some of the things you said to colleagues. People were telling me you should get him on your podcast."
Yann Caloghiris · Host, For Breakfast Podcast
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