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Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations; author and former Economist and Washington Post journalist
Back in 2022, I supported the Biden chip-export controls on China. After a week with Chinese AI researchers and tech leaders, I've changed my mind. The controls are not working, and they obstruct another strategy that just might work. [...]
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Democracies should coordinate export controls on AI chips to China
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[🇺🇸 Congress, Jan 2026] Giving Congress power to block AI chip exports to adversaries
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AI Unverifiable I could not verify this to a high-confidence, verbatim standard. The original X URL was not retrievable through the browser tool, so I could not inspect the source post directly. Multiple third-party mirror/search snippets do show the exact quoted wording attributed to “Sebastian Mallaby @scmallaby,” and they align with a New York Times op-ed by Mallaby published on April 13, 2026 about abandoning chip-export controls and pursuing AI-safety cooperation with China. But the exact tweet text was only visible on scraper/mirror pages, and one TwStalker detail page showed attribution/scraping inconsistencies, so that is not strong enough for full verification. ([x.com](https://x.com/scmallaby/status/2043642573458170272)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
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