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Gordon Chang told Mark Levin on Life, Liberty & Levin that Beijing is not merely competing with America for chips and talent — it wants to control the rules of the AI road and has even worked to fuel anti-AI messaging here at home to shape that outcome. His warning is stark but sensible: when a regime that already censors speech and weaponizes technology sets the agenda, liberty pays the price.
Look at what China has already done inside its own borders — the state’s AI playbook is about control, not freedom, with regulators demanding ideological conformity from chatbots and tech firms. Those domestic rules are a preview of the export model Beijing would happily impose worldwide if left unchecked, turning innovation into an instrument of political control.
This is not abstract geopolitics; AI is a strategic tool for power projection, surveillance, and influence. Analysts and policymakers warn that Beijing’s tech strategy is woven into its national security doctrine, aimed at reshaping global information flows and decision-making in favor of the Chinese Communist Party.
Chang’s point about China “funneling” narratives into American discourse is no conspiracy theory — we’ve seen coordinated messaging campaigns from Beijing around trade, tech, and now AI, and those narratives find eager amplifiers in an America divided and anxious about change. The result is a dangerous confluence: domestic fear of AI being used as leverage by foreign adversaries, while voices that should defend innovation instead push policies that may cede ground to authoritarian influence.
Washington’s scramble for AI rules is already bipartisan, and that urgency is understandable, but we must not let good intentions become the Trojan horse for giving the Chinese model moral authority over global AI standards. If America writes the rules, they should protect free speech, innovation, and national security — not hand a roadmap to regimes that jail critics and rewrite facts.
Patriots should demand clarity and courage from our leaders: fund American AI research, secure supply chains, and reject any global framework that hands control to our adversaries. This is about more than markets or jobs — it’s about who gets to decide what truth looks like in the digital age, and whether free people will still be free when the machines do the talking.
