The U.S. Has a Game Changer in the Struggle for High-Tech Supremacy

America’s alliance with Australia and the United Kingdom can ensure that we don’t let our enemies outdo us technologically.

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Anduril Industries’ Ghost Shark AUV, developed with the Royal Australian Navy, in an image posted to Twitter April 18, 2024.

Anduril Industries via Twitter/@anduriltech

In the great-power competition with the United States’ adversaries, none is more formidable than the Chinese Communist Party.

Emboldened by four years of appeasement policies, the CCP is on the march — escalating its military activities, conducting aggressive drills around Taiwan, and increasing its belligerence in the South China Sea. These actions are not isolated incidents, but part of a broader strategy to assert dominance in the region, challenge international norms, and threaten the sovereignty of neighboring countries.

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Michael McCaul

Michael McCaul represents Texas's tenth congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Arthur Herman

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Arthur Herman

Arthur Herman is a senior research fellow at the Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II.

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