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What AI’s nightmare November means for politics, power and business

Analysis: Bronwen Maddox, David Lubin, and Alex Krasodomski assess the converging political and market shocks hitting the U.S. artificial intelligence sector following the 2026 midterms. They highlight how grassroots resistance to energy-intensive data centers and the resignation of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang over an alleged Chinese espionage affair expose deep vulnerabilities in Washington’s tech-industrial base. This matters because domestic political friction and supply-chain counterintelligence risks could erode U.S. technological hegemony in its strategic competition with China.

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Map showing the Acheson Line (dotted blue line) defining the US defense perimeter in the Pacific, labeled in Korean

The New Acheson Line: How Trump’s ‘America First’ Strategy Abandons Asia

The 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) released by the Trump administration has shocked the Indo-Pacific, indicating a major shift in U.S. defense commitments. Framed as a “realist” recalibration, it is perceived by analysts in Tokyo and Seoul as a strategic retreat, echoing the Nixon Doctrine and repositioning a defensive perimeter along the First Island Chain, thereby conceding the Asian mainland to Chinese influence and prioritizing economic nationalism over alliance unity.

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