What Ross Douthat thinks about China

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Conservative columnist and author who joined CBS News' 60 Minutes as a correspondent in 2026, after writing an Opinion column at The New York Times from 2009 to 2026; author of Bad Religion (2012), The Decadent Society (2020) and Believe (2025).

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1. 18 Jul 2026

   Our readingChina treats its AI models like nuclear energy, a technology to share.

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   Their wordsMeanwhile, China treats the models that its companies produce as the equivalent of nuclear energy, a lower-risk technology to be shared and commercialized to win friends and influence the world and undermine the advantages of the American A.I. giants.

   ↗China’s A.I. Play Is Different From America’snytimes.com 2nd of 2 in this piece