For decades, we have been told Communist China is just an economic competitor. We were blithely assured that, if we engaged with and enriched the PRC by transferring there much of our manufacturing capability, supply chains and investment dollars, it would become more like us.

Arguably, in the history of the world, there has never been amore colossal strategic mistake.

We’ve transformed Communist China, alright, and now it’s a powerful, mortal enemy upon whom we critically depend even though the CCP’s stated goal is to destroy this country.

That’s the context in which we must consider the introduction this week of China’s DeepSeek, a free artificial intelligence model with the potential to engage – and addict – millions of Americans, even as we struggle to break TikTok’s grip on half our population.

Learn more at our PresentDangerChina.org webinar today at 2 p.m. Eastern Time.

This is Frank Gaffney.