Tim Hwang and Rachel Reses are joined by Hudson Institute senior fellow Michael Sobolik and FAI Director of Technology and Statecraft Joshua Levine to unpack the new OpenAI report on Chinese covert influence ops targeting U.S. tech policy. We cover: why some Americans find anti-data center discourse compelling in the first place, how China hawks can expose CCP efforts to sow distrust in US institutions without dismissing homegrown anxieties, what else we’d like to learn about the reach and audience of the campaigns OpenAI describes, and whether America should unleash our most unhinged poasters on our adversaries as vengeance.

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