Articles, Commentaries, Etc.

  • “America and China Can Make AI Safer.” Foreign Affairs. April 7, 2026 (With Christina Knight)

  • “China is Worried About AI Companions. Here’s What It’s Doing About Them.” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. February 26, 2026 (With Matt Sheehan)

  • “With the RAISE Act, New York Aligns with California on Frontier AI Laws.” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. February 5, 2026 (With Alasdair Phillips-Robins)

  • “DeepSeek was a Warning Shot. China is Building its Next Surprise.” Washington Post. January 30, 2026 (With Pavlo Zvenyhorodskyi)

  • “AI’s New Test on Direct Democracy.” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. December 22, 2025 (With Ian Klaus and Mark Baldassare)

  • “The Most Likely Outcomes of Trump’s Order Targeting State AI Laws.” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. December 15, 2025 (With Jon Bateman, Anton Leicht, and Alasdair Phillips-Robins)

  • “How China’s AI Diffusion Plan Could Backfire.” Transformer. December 3, 2025

  • “How China Views AI Risks and What to Do About Them.” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. October 16, 2025 (With Matt Sheehan)

  • “California Just Passed the First U.S. Frontier AI Law. Here’s What It Does.” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. October 16, 2025 (With Alasdair Phillips-Robins)

  • “Is China Serious About AI Safety?” AI Frontiers. October 14, 2025 (With Karson Elmgren and Oliver Guest)

  • “China Wants to Integrate AI Into 90 Percent of Its Economy by 2030. It Won’t Work.” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. September 2, 2025

  • “The AI Action Plans: How Similar are the U.S. and Chinese Playbooks?” Just Security. August 26, 2025 (With Pavlo Zvenyhorodskyi)

  • “The State of State AI Law: What’s Coming Now that the Federal Moratorium is Dead.” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. July 10, 2025 (With Alasdair Phillips-Robins)

  • “What DeepSeek Revealed About the Future of U.S.-China Competition.” Foreign Policy. February 3, 2025 (With Matt Sheehan)

  • “DeepSeek and Other Chinese Firms Converge with Western Companies on AI Promises.” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. January 28, 2025

  • “Trump’s Balancing Act with China on Frontier AI Safety.” Just Security. December 23, 2024

  • “How the UK Should Engage China at AI’s Frontier.” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. October 18, 2024

  • “Lawfare Daily: Scott Singer on AI and US-China Relations.” Lawfare. July 10, 2024 (with Kevin Frazier and Jan Patja)

  • “Britain’s Golden Era with China is Well and Truly Dead.” Foreign Policy. September 23, 2022 (With Sam Hogg)

  • “Three Reasons to Ignore that Twitter Poll: A Guide for China Watchers.” US-China Perception Monitor. August 10, 2022 (With Michael Cerny)

  • “Don’t Let Concerns over Xi’s China Trump Vital Language Learning.” Oxford Political Review. June 16, 2022

  • “‘Only Nixon Could Go to China’; Only Xi Can Go to America?” The Diplomat. February 21, 2022 (With Brian Wong)

  • “A Tale of Two Crises: Why US Strategy in Ukraine Has Few Implications for Taiwan.” The Diplomat. January 8, 2022 (With Mathias Gjesdal Hammer)

  • “How Universal Basic Income Can Advance the United States’ China Strategy.” The Diplomat. November 8, 2021 (With Ben Silvian)

  • “Diplomacy Under Different Rules: How an NGO Dictates American Diplomacy in Taiwan.” The Diplomat. September 24, 2021 (With Rachel Bernstein)

  • “How the Milk Tea Alliance Is Remaking Myanmar.” The Diplomat. July 21, 2021 (With Jasmine Chia)

  • “How the Milk Tea Alliance Has Succeeded, and Why It May Fail.” Fulcrum: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. December 23, 2020 (With Jasmine Chia)