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The AI Race We Can’t Win With Chinese Parts

America’s data center boom exposes a fundamental strategic contradiction.
The AI Race We Can’t Win With Chinese Parts
A technician works at an Amazon Web Services AI data center in New Carlisle, Ind., on Oct. 2, 2025. Noah Berger/Getty Images via Amazon Web Services
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While U.S. tech executives and government officials speak urgently about the need to dominate artificial intelligence (AI) to compete with China, the infrastructure needed to build that dominance remains critically dependent on the Chinese regime.

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Kay Rubacek
Kay Rubacek
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Kay Rubacek is an award-winning educator, filmmaker, author, and mother. Detained in a Chinese prison in 2001 for her human-rights advocacy, she has since dedicated her work to exposing the systems and ideologies that diminish human life and human sovereignty. She has been a contributor to The Epoch Times since 2010.