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Why There Hasn't Been a ChatGPT Moment Yet in Manufacturing
The Invisible Kernel War Between the U.S. and China and the Race to Industrial AI
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The Hero and the Collective
Reflections from a life lived across America and China, where liberty collides with scale.
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We Are Building the Wrong Factories
Why Silicon Valley's Defense Obsession is Missing the Real Path to American Reindustrialization
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Inside China’s Hybrid Military-Industrial Model
it may have the benefits of both the U.S. and Soviet systems
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How a $1 Lighter Defied Inflation for 20 Years
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The Scale War Beyond Tariffs
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where systems collide
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Shear Force offers deep analysis of China’s industrial policy and manufacturing architecture and explores the structural prerequisites for a plausible American reindustrialization.
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