OPINION:
On the heels of feigning friendship with America and with President Trump during his historic White House visit and tour, Chinese President Xi Jinping went back to his country and marked the 77th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic by saying the “momentum of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is unstoppable.” And despite his recent statements about the need to collaborate globally on the development of artificial intelligence, Xi’s truer goals are what he said a few months ago at the World AI Conference in Shanghai — that is, for China to lead.
“Xi pitches China as leader of new global AI order, challenging US dominance,” is how Reuters summarized it in a July 2026 headline.
Message received. China wants to dominate the new world order.
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Thing is: Communism sucks. So for China to win on the AI front means the order of the new world would be one of poverty, elitism, misery, death — in general, life would suck.
That’s why Trump’s call to AI arms is so important. He knows America must win on this front. But just as important as winning AI dominance is to preserve American Exceptionalism, that is, the idea that rights come from God, not government; that is, the idea of a limited government; that is, the notion of citizen privacy and government transparency.
It’s hard to beat China here because the Chinese Communist Party doesn’t care about individual rights. The Communists are collectivists. The CCP, in fact, is busily collecting information on each and every one of its citizens, daily, monitoring their every mood, their every action, their every transaction. The Communists are scooping up data in every direction and feeding it into their software systems and using what comes to develop top-notch AI
If data is the food of AI, then police states have the easiest access to that food.
How can America compete — no, win — without losing American Exceptionalism in the process?
Enter deep state.
This is what the CIA is supposed to be spending its time doing — disrupting foreign threats to America. The agency, on its website, states it “provides objective intelligence on foreign countries and global issues to the president, the National Security Council and other policymakers to help them make national security decisions.”
Great. Well, hire some superior hackers and technology disruptors and task them with setting China back, oh, let’s say, 50 years on the AI and technology stages. America’s deep state should be actively engaged in taking out the foreign competition in AI — aggressively and offensively — as a means of protecting the West, Western culture, American liberties and the future of freedom around the world.
We’re doing it against Iran right now.
After years and years of Iranian terrorists and the regime’s terror proxies nipping at our heels, America, under Trump, has taken the necessary actions to destroy that nation’s nuclear abilities, and in so doing, secured both the safety of U.S. interests and of the freedom-loving world.
America can now use its considerable intel and deep state and covert agencies to upset China’s research and development of superior artificial intelligence.
Otherwise, we’ll be forced to play the technology game by the rules set by the CCP — which means mass data collection. What will it mean for America to win at AI if America, in the process of winning, turns into a tyrannical society?
America must never become China.
And America’s deep state can play a role here in upsetting China’s AI cart.
If the deep state can spend years planting and investigating the mythological “Russia collusion” against an American president and MAGA citizens, just think of what it could accomplish by putting those same energies toward beating back an actual U.S. adversary that carries an actual threat to U.S. interests.
“We are the Nation’s first line of defense,” the CIA said on its website. “We accomplish what others cannot accomplish and go where others cannot go.”
Well, get going — and get disruptive against China in the AI race. Save America’s constitutional way.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “God-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths,” is available by clicking HERE.
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