Beyond Borders: How Threat Intelligence Provenance Can Save Global Cybersecurity From Geopolitical Fragmentation
In mid-January 2026, the Chinese government allegedly announced a sweeping ban on cybersecurity software from more than a dozen U.S. and Israeli firms, including industry giants like Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, and Check Point. The stated reason: concerns that foreign…
Identity Engineering: Why a leading Chinese AI startup abandons its home market
The Chinese AI and venture capital community was shocked by Meta’s swift acquisition of Manus, an AI agent company from Wuhan, China, in a deal worth an estimated $2–3 billion. For Meta, this deal is its third-largest acquisition to date….
WSIS+20: The UN Swallows the IGF
IGP attended the UN General Assembly meeting in New York December 15 – 17, where a much anticipated “overall review of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society” took place. The “high-level meeting” produced…
DeepSeek-OCR: China’s Answer to the U.S. Chip Ban
The CTO of Palantir Technologies Shyam Sankar recently criticized Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s idea that selling products in China would ultimately serve U.S. interests by making China dependent on American technology. Sankar argued that deepening economic dependence on China would…
Identity politics: The TikTok Deal, Chinese export controls, and firms’ country-of-origin conundrum
In mid-September 2025, U.S. and Chinese officials convened in Madrid for a high-level negotiation that yielded a breakthrough on the TikTok deal: a “basic framework consensus” for resolving the long dispute over the platform. This meeting marked the fourth round…
The Coming AI Bust
Inflated expectations, inflated assets, inflated capital investments, bad policy. It’s all got to end pretty soon. Artificial intelligence applications are everywhere. They unlock your phone, correct your spelling, redesign your slide presentations, recommend videos, scan and summarize reports and papers,…
The shocking part of the TikTok settlement that no one’s talking about
There are many reasons to be concerned about freedom of expression in America these days. But one of them, and perhaps the most insidious, is going under the radar. I am talking about the framework agreement under which TikTok’s US…
Intel’s Glorious Past and Current Funeral
It’s time to realize that our industrial policy for semiconductors is failing. It was built on three pillars: subsidies to encourage re-shoring of fabrication, export controls that made trade in chips a function of our political alliances; and an attempt…
WSIS+20 Stakeholder Consultations: IGP’s Input
What should become of the World Summit on the Information Society? The WSIS+20 review process, culminating at the UN General Assembly in December 2025, will assess progress made since the original WSIS and chart a course for its future. The…
“Apple in China:” A Critical Review
A review of Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company by Patrick McGee Patrick McGee has written a splendid business history that also manages to wade into geopolitics in a misguided way. The book’s underlying focus is the…