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From the Pacific Divide
The publication record. Every entry links to the original piece until it is migrated to this domain.
China’s AI Strategy Isn’t Theft
Five documents show what it actually is.
What the Iran War Revealed About the Systems We Depend On
On the dependencies the war exposed, from Hormuz to the grid.
While Washington Fights the Chip War, Beijing Just Published Its AI War Plan
The 15th Five-Year Plan doesn’t mention semiconductors once. That’s the point.
The Third Track
For eighteen months the story has been simple. It is wrong.
China Solved AI Without Our Training Data. Now They’re Writing the Rules
We thought we were winning. We already lost.
Paper Tigers or Hidden Dragons?
Three emerging Chinese technology companies against their Western counterparts.
The Quantum Leapfrog: How China Plans to Outpace Silicon Valley
From policy documents to production lines, inside Beijing’s quantum strategy.
The AI Bottleneck China Controls
And Congress ignores.
Code Red
On the American semiconductor industry’s exposure.
Why ASL-3 Signals We’re Closer to AGI
What a safety level says about the timeline.
The complete archive remains at the Pacific Divide on Substack during migration
Investigations
The Pacific Divide · Investigation
The nuclear-powered AI infrastructure investigation, traced to page numbers.
The Pacific Divide · Investigation
The top-read investigation of the founding year.
China Brief · The Jamestown Foundation
Identified the transfer layer that nine years of controls never reached.
The Pacific Divide · Firm Report
The Genome Is the New Chip
The biological sovereignty architecture, briefed to biotechnology chief executives.
UK House of Commons · Written Evidence
Analysis accepted into the permanent parliamentary record.
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