What Timothy Garton Ash thinks about China

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Historian of contemporary Europe at the University of Oxford who writes about Europe, Germany, Ukraine and free speech in his newsletter History of the Present.

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1. 23 Aug 2026

   Our readingUnlike nuclear weapons, AI has no logic of mutually assured destruction to tame US-China competition.

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   Their wordsUnlike with nuclear weapons, there’s also no obvious logic of ‘mutually assured destruction’ to tame the fierce geopolitical competition between the United States and China.

   ↗Are we heading for an AI Hiroshima?timothygartonash.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece