Hi, I'm Ravi Agrawal, Foreign Policy's Editor-in-Chief. This is FP Live.

So we often discuss war and conflict on this program, and today I want to focus on a non-traditional war,

the chip wars. Over the last few decades, China has begun to catch up with the United States in several arenas.

Its military might, its economic clout, innovations in clean energy,

but one area where it is known to be significantly behind is in the manufacturing and design of the highest end chips,

or semiconductors. Now, a quick primer here. Chips are used in everything from microwaves to the

smartphones in your hands, but the highest end versions of those, the semiconductors that are truly

special, they are the ones that have exponentially more computing

power, and they're the ones that are behind the big AI boom. And that is what both companies

and countries are trying to control. Hence, the chip wars. Now, US President-elect Donald Trump

has a background here. He kick-started many of the

restrictions on China, on Huawei, on banning sales of Dutch lithograph machines, all of this in his

first term, and then Biden expanded on them. All of this on all sides was designed to maintain America's advantage in artificial

intelligence. And the question now is what Trump might do in a second term and how that

interplays with another big agenda item on his mind, and that's tariffs. Well, my guest today is

the world's leading expert on semiconductor competition.

Chris Miller is the author of Chip War, the fight for the world's most critical technology.

He's also a professor at Tufts University's Fletcher School.

As always, we love hearing from you.

Our email is live at foreign policy.com. Let's dive in.

Chris, welcome back to FP Live. Thanks for having me back. So I'm going to start with some very, very basic

questions. Why do we care where our chips are made?

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