Bold Names Condoleezza Rice on Beating China in the Tech Race: 'Run Hard and Run Fast'
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Oct 3, 2025 
Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. Secretary of State and director of the Hoover Institution, shares insights on geopolitical tensions and the tech race with China. She emphasizes the urgent need for the U.S. to lead in AI and warns about the risks posed by AGI. Rice argues that businesses must integrate foreign policy with corporate strategy and adapt to ongoing uncertainties. She calls for innovation across sectors, the importance of democratic oversight, and strengthening global alliances to stay competitive.
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A New, Enduring Global Uncertainty
- The international environment is more uncertain due to China's integration and technological rise.
- Businesses must accept that this uncertainty is a long-term structural shift, not tied to one administration.
China Is Not The Soviet Union
- The China challenge differs from the Soviet-era Cold War because China is deeply integrated economically and technologically.
- That integration gives China leverage over supply chains and critical materials in ways the USSR never could.
China As A Technological Peer
- China is a technological peer across AI, robotics, batteries, and synthetic biology.
- Private-sector scientific advances can outpace national-security awareness, so better linkage is needed.