Starlink, the satellite internet constellation owned by U.S. aerospace firm SpaceX, has proved a major focus for Beijing and the Chinese security community in recent years due to the technology’s use on the battlefield in Ukraine. In this symposium, key experts analyze insights Beijing is drawing regarding the technology’s broader economic, political, and security ramifications and the future of U.S.-China space competition.

As China faces geopolitical pressure at the high end of the value chain and price competition at the low end, Beijing has made leading-edge, highly-efficient manufacturing capabilities a top policy priority. In this analysis, experts Kendra Schaefer and Cory Combs from Trivium China provide an in-depth overview of this emerging effort, dubbed “new industrialization.”

How is Beijing thinking about the future of cybersecurity governance? In this analysis, cybersecurity expert Dakota Cary unpacks a chapter from the Cyberspace Administration of China’s July 2023 volume, General Secretary Xi Jinping’s Introduction to Important Ideology Regarding China as Cyber Powerhouse, which outlines the CCP’s views for the future of the internet both behind and beyond China’s Great Firewall.

As artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities and applications develop at an unprecedented pace, governments around the world are grappling with regulatory, commercial, and ethical risks and opportunities. Here, two leading analysts examine recently translated documents to assess how Beijing is weighing the risks and challenges of AI, similarities and differences to the approaches emerging in other capitals, and implications for U.S.-China competition.