The Existential Threat of AI and the Need for International Cooperation
The NGO Network Quietly Strangling American Data Centers & AI
"The most effective influence operation in 2026 is the one that does not look like an influence operation.Most Americans, when they think about Chinese influence at all, picture something cinematic. They picture a senator on a stage in the Capitol, flanked by two advisors to the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, nodding along to a discussion of how the United States should slow down its own AI industry.
That happened on April 29, 2026, when (communist) Bernie Sanders convened Xue Lan and Zeng Yi for an event titled “The Existential Threat of AI and the Need for International Cooperation.” It was a useful spectacle. It was also a distraction.
The real damage to American AI competitiveness in 2026 is not being done in the Capitol on a Wednesday evening. It is being done quietly, week after week, in 38 state legislatures, by a coalition of NGOs whose funding and intellectual lineage trace back to the same upstream ecosystem that platformed Xue and Zeng, and that has been operating in plain sight for over a decade.
The point of this essay is to lay out, carefully and without exaggeration, why federal preemption of state AI law is no longer a deregulatory preference.
It is a national security necessity. And then to pose what I will call the Manhattan Project test: a single yes-or-no question that, in my view, separates honest AI safety advocacy from de facto strategic alignment with Beijing.
The question Congress should be asking is not whether federal preemption violates conservative principles. The question is whether the United States can afford to let 38 statehouses, lobbied by NGOs whose intellectual lineage runs through Beijing-aligned framings, set the operating constraints for the technology on which the next century of American power depends. The answer is no."
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