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Huawei And Europe’s ‘Tech Sovereignty’ Double Standard Original
Nearly eight years after U.S. prosecutors first brought criminal charges against Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant is finally on trial. The list of crimes the CCP-linked company is accused of committing is extensive.
Don't let Beijing write Texas' AI policy
China has worked for years to drive climate activism in America with a goal of slowing down American energy independence and making America dependent on Chinese energy technologies. Now it's using the same playbook for artificial intelligence. Texans shouldn't fall for it.
Michael Lucci: Don't let Beijing write Texas' AI policy
Citizens talk concrete batch plant, AI data centers at Lubbock council A Lubbock resident speaks to the City Council about the proposed AI Data Center moratorium. The Lubbock City Council hosted a meeting Tuesday, Aug. 25, in Citizens Tower. Among items on the agenda were public hearings to discuss the AI data center moratorium and a concrete batch plant request.
Trump’s China Strategy Is Bigger Than Tariffs and Summits | National Review
Beneath the surface, the U.S. is hard at work on building military capacity and industrial resilience.
We Need To Wake Up To Communist China’s Cold War On America
As founder and CEO of State Armor, I spend a lot of time in state capitals walking state officials through one basic fact: The Chinese Communist Party almost never tries to match America strength-for-strength. Their game is subversion, and they seek asymmetric opportunities to turn our own strengths against us. For more than a century, affordable, abundant energy has underwritten America’s superpower status.
Lucci: Texans Cannot Fall Victim to Data Center Propaganda
China has worked for years to drive climate activism in America with a goal of slowing down American energy independence and making America dependent on Chinese energy technologies. Now it’s using the same playbook for Artificial Intelligence. Texans shouldn’t fall for it. For generations, Texas has been America’s energy capital. The state’s abundant resources, entrepreneurial culture, and willingness to build made it an economic powerhouse and strengthened America’s security.
Fighting America, arming China: The West's suicidal tech policy
Over the past year, the Chinese Communist Party has engaged in repeated clashes with the United States and other nations of the free world. Yet, it continues to weave its surveillance technologies into the very countries it targets for attack. Beijing has run drills to prepare to invade Taiwan, clashed with the Philippines around Scarborough Shoal, and targeted Japanese planes. China's consul general in Osaka even threatened to behead Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.
U.S. Climate Advocacy Benefits China, Constrains American Energy and Industry
The Chinese Communist Party is trying to subvert American power by weaponizing our own institutions against us. Nowhere is this dynamic more visible than in climate policy.
America’s ‘Green’ Power Grid Has A Red China Problem
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America’s November crash course in Chinese hybrid warfare
Communist China’s military buildup is front-page news. From a September show-of-force parade in Beijing to the recent commissioning of the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA’s) third aircraft carrier, the Fujian, Chinese leader Xi Jinping is advertising his intent to displace the U.S. from the Pacific and overthrow the global Pax Americana.
JACQUELINE DEAL And MICHAEL LUCCI: America’s November Crash Course In Chinese Hybrid Warfare
Communist China’s military buildup is front-page news. From a September show-of-force parade in Beijing to the recent commissioning of the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA’s) third aircraft carrier, the Fujian, Chinese leader Xi Jinping is advertising his intent to displace the U.S. from the Pacific and overthrow the global Pax Americana.
Climate Litigation Hands China a Strategic Victory While Harming America
For years, climate activists have insisted that America must undergo a rapid, top-down “green transition,” pursuing sweeping mandates that Congress has repeatedly rejected. Unable to legislate their agenda, they have turned to the courts, a strategy that has broad national security implications.
Foreign companies are masquerading as US businesses
In Washington, T-Mobile is one of the biggest spenders in the influence industry. Its parent, Deutsche Telekom, has turned the carrier into a lobbying powerhouse. In 2024 alone, the company spent more than $10 million lobbying federal agencies and lawmakers, employing nearly 100 lobbyists. In the first half of 2025, T-Mobile has spent more than $5.3 million on influence campaigns, hiring a slew of powerful Washington firms.
MICHAEL LUCCI: Legal Leaders Wanted To Save Critical Infrastructure
Chinese surveillance cameras contain a secret functionality that allows China’s military to take over the networks to which the cameras are connected. Tens of thousands of these cameras are connected to American critical infrastructure, transmitting data to overseas servers controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and giving China’s military the ability to sabotage utilities like water purification .
Legal leaders wanted to save critical infrastructure
Chinese surveillance cameras contain a secret functionality that allows China’s military to take over the networks to which the cameras are connected. Tens of thousands of these cameras are connected to American critical infrastructure, transmitting data to overseas servers controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and giving China’s military the ability to sabotage utilities like water purification .
Solving the national security crisis on America’s campuses
American universities shine when they embody American values of free inquiry, a culture of innovation, and dedication to national security. To fulfill this promise, campus leaders must proactively thwart espionage and repression carried out by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Yet universities cannot fulfill this mission on their own. State and federal government leaders must set the rules of the road for dealing with foreign adversaries on campus.
Solving The National Security Crisis On America’s Campuses
American universities shine when they embody American values of free inquiry, a culture of innovation, and dedication to national security. To fulfill this promise, campus leaders must proactively thwart espionage and repression carried out by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Yet universities cannot fulfill this mission on their own. State and federal government leaders must set the rules of the road for dealing with foreign adversaries on campus.
MICHAEL LUCCI And JACQUELINE DEAL: Solving The National Security Crisis On America’s Campuses Original
American universities shine when they embody American values of free inquiry, a culture of innovation, and dedication to national security. To fulfill this promise, campus leaders must proactively thwart espionage and repression carried out by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Yet universities cannot fulfill this mission on their own. State and federal government leaders must set the rules of the road for dealing with foreign adversaries on campus.
LUCCI: Spain’s ‘Digital Sovereignty’ ends in Beijing
In Spain, “digital sovereignty” now means putting up barriers to restrict American tech companies while outsourcing the country’s networks to the Chinese Communist Party. Across the EU, governments claim to be building independent systems to counter foreign dominance. But in practice, that often entails punishing the success of U.S. firms via regulations and taxes while deepening reliance on CCP-linked suppliers to backfill demand unmet by European companies.
Spain’s ‘digital sovereignty’ ends in Beijing
In Spain, “digital sovereignty” now means putting up barriers to restrict American tech companies while outsourcing the country’s networks to the Chinese Communist Party. Across the EU, governments claim to be building independent systems to counter foreign dominance. But in practice, that often entails punishing the success of U.S. firms via regulations and taxes while deepening reliance on CCP-linked suppliers to backfill demand unmet by European companies.
MICHAEL LUCCI: Spain’s ‘Digital Sovereignty’ Ends In Beijing
In Spain, “digital sovereignty” now means putting up barriers to restrict American tech companies while outsourcing the country’s networks to the Chinese Communist Party. Across the EU, governments claim to be building independent systems to counter foreign dominance. But in practice, that often entails punishing the success of U.S. firms via regulations and taxes while deepening reliance on CCP-linked suppliers to backfill demand unmet by European companies.
NATO must become a coalition of the growing
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Op-Ed: NATO must become a coalition of the growing Original
President Donald Trump recently secured a historic victory at the NATO summit, as all but one alliance member committed to spending 5% of GDP on defense by 2035. Trump’s goal is essential for reversing decades of underinvestment and restoring NATO’s hard power to protect the free world against rising authoritarianism. NATO members should make a second commitment to bolster the first: NATO must become a coalition of the growing.
U.S. must cut off China's military from American genetic data
OPINION: Last month, President Trump’s Food and Drug Administration moved to protect Americans’ genetic data from communist China, closing a Biden-era loophole that allowed federally funded clinical trials to share sensitive data with America’s adversaries. The FDA’s decision is a timely reminder of the Chinese Communist Party’s intent to dominate therapeutic and military applications of biotechnologies enabled by genetic data.
CCP In The Machine: How China’s Tech Continues To Infiltrate American Hardware
Exclusive Article — Opinion — State AGs must enforce the law against Chinese manufacturers that embed hidden backdoors in products. In May, U.S. energy officials released bombshell findings about China’s ability to turn out the lights across America. Rogue communications devices were found inside Chinese solar power inverters. In addition, undisclosed cellular radios were found inside Chinese batteries.
MICHAEL LUCCI: US Multinationals Must Exit China
President Trump first called upon American businesses to find an alternative to China in August 2019. Few executives listened. Since then, China’s global behavior has ranged from thuggish to explicitly war-like, including covid duplicity, underwriting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, fueling America’s fentanyl crisis, and preparing to invade Taiwan. Trump’s 2019 call has been completely validated.
Keep CCP Spyware Out of U.S. Healthcare
Federal agencies are sounding the alarm about Chinese spyware in U.S. healthcare. From patient monitors to internet-connected cameras, to DNA sequencers and WiFi routers, a range of Chinese products have come under scrutiny for potentially providing Beijing with backdoor access to sensitive American healthcare data.
Tax changes must enhance America’s dynamism and competitiveness
President-elect Donald Trump’s election was premised in part on his guarantee to deliver a stronger, more competitive, and more resilient nation. Federal tax changes to be enacted in 2025 must reinforce that mandate by making permanent two critical provisions from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. America’s tax code should enhance our internal dynamism while also boosting our global competitiveness. Two tax policies stand out for achieving these goals.
Tim Walz’s China experience may be an asset. But for whom?
Behind Gov. Tim Walz’s (D-MN) folksy demeanor is a deep and disturbing history with the Chinese government. But don’t expect this history to make headlines with much of the legacy media. In fact, Walz’s relationship with China quickly received near-universal acclaim as an unqualified asset. An asset it might be, but for whom? Walz’s history presents a case study in the Chinese Communist Party’s subnational influence campaigns.
Missouri AG Sends Strong Message To CCP: Spy Another Day
Chinese Communist secret police have infiltrated the United States. Working through so-called “nonprofits” with pedestrian-sounding names, these operators have set up spy nests and secret police stations, subverting our Republic while exporting Chinese Communist Party (CCP) totalitarianism to American shores.
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To Combat China’s Infiltration of the U.S., We Must Begin With the States
Although Americans agree that China is the most serious threat facing the United States, they may not realize the danger is already inside our borders. Last week, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is preparing to “wreak havoc and cause real-world harm” within the United States.
To Check China, Unlock American Industry
America is engaged in a struggle against the Chinese Communist Party, which seeks to displace America’s global leadership with its modernized model of Marxist, techno-totalitarian control. Defeating such an opponent will require a whole-of-society effort. One critical part of that effort will be developing superior hardware and software technologies at home.
Nebraska's Path to the Top Ten, Four More Years of Tax Reform - Platte Institute
To download the full “Nebraska’s Path to the Top Ten Report” click here. Summary Nebraska entered 2022 with one of the least-competitive tax systems in a highly competitive region. But then a structural surge in tax revenues was utilized by lawmakers to perform Nebraska’s two-year tax transformation. Across two governors and two years, Nebraska lawmakers delivered unprecedented tax relief and considerable improvements in the state’s individual income tax and corporate income tax.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker Welcomes Hostile Foreign Spies Into Illinois’ Police Force
The new law allows foreign citizens who hold American green cards or have DACA status to become police officers.
Pritzker Welcomes Hostile Foreign Spies Into Illinois' Police Force
Imagine this nightmare scenario. An American citizen walking on American streets is arrested, detained, and questioned by a police officer who serves a hostile foreign government such as China, Russia, or Iran. The foreign cop might be a spy charged with keeping track of U.S.-based persons of interest on behalf of his government. This spy, who doubles as an American cop, has the power to act under American law, investigate U.S. residents, and even use lethal force, should he see fit.
Nebraska Leads the Great Plains Tax Sweep | National Review
Nebraska was center stage during the third year of the state-tax revolution, simultaneously making major income- and property-tax reforms.
Mississippi’s New Tax Model Can Work for America
Full expensing can help secure a domestic home for more of America's critical supply chains.
Strong Revenue and Fiscal Federalism Are Driving a State-Based Tax Revolution | National Review
A wave of state income-tax cuts that began in 2021 is set to continue as states such as West Virginia, North Dakota, and Kentucky are poised to cut rates this year.
States Are Showing Washington How to Relieve Inflation
Inflation continues to be the top concern for American voters going into the midterm elections. But rather than advancing responsible policies that will tame inflation, the federal government continues to pursue tax and spending plans that will raise the federal deficit, undermine growth, and do nothing to lower prices.
Democrats, for All Their Promises, Didn’t Dare Repeal the Trump Tax Cuts After All
President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law last month, adding to a long history of legislation that will achieve the opposite of what its name claims. Consider the quality of K-12 education after the No Child Left Behind Act, or the affordability of health care after the Affordable Care Act. Already, the Congressional Budget Office projects that the law will have zero impact on inflation.
Democrats, for all their promises, didn’t dare repeal the Trump tax cuts after all Original
President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law last month, adding to a long history of legislation that will achieve the opposite of what its name claims. Consider the quality of K-12 education after the No Child Left Behind Act, or the affordability of health care after the Affordable Care Act. Already, the Congressional Budget Office projects that the law will have zero impact on inflation.
Shh - Let's Keep That Trump Tax Law
President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law last week, adding to a long history of legislation that will achieve the opposite of what its name claims. Consider the quality of K-12 education after the No Child Left Behind Act, or the affordability of health care after the Affordable Care Act. Already, the Congressional Budget Office projects that the law will have zero impact on inflation.
Why the Democrats Kept Trump’s Tax Reform
President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law last week, adding to a long history of legislation that will achieve the opposite of what its name claims. Consider the quality of K-12 education after the No Child Left Behind Act, or the affordability of health care after the Affordable Care Act. Already, the Congressional Budget Office projects that the law will have zero impact on inflation.
Gavin Newsom's California Is A Warning, Not a Model
California’s natural beauty and balmy climate are the envy of every state. Yet a strange thing has happened over the last two years: for the first time in state history, California has begun to shrink. You wouldn’t know it from Governor Gavin Newsom’s air of public confidence. In the last few weeks, Newsom accepted a national award for education transformation and ran political ads to warn Floridians that their freedom is under attack.
SPN State Jobs Report: Nevada Joins Short List of States That Have Surpassed Pre-Pandemic Job Counts
SPN’s State Jobs Report is a monthly tracker that ranks states’ progress in post-pandemic job recovery and identifies policy trends impacting recovery. By Michael Lucci, Senior Policy Advisor at State Policy Network Nevada became the fifteenth state to surpass its pre-pandemic jobs count in June 2022, according to the latest 50-state job recovery ranking in SPN’s State Jobs Report. The state now has 3,100 more jobs than it had in February 2020.
SALT Cap Encourages Healthy Tax Competition
Two policies could make the U.S. a more internally and internationally competitive arena for business.
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