Abstract: Microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Until recently, America designed and built the fastest chips and maintained its lead as the #1 superpower. Now, America's edge is slipping, undermined by competitors in Taiwan, Korea, Europe, and, above all, China. At stake is America’s military superiority and economic prosperity. Economic historian Chris Miller will speak about the decades-long battle to control microchip technology and how this has increasingly put the United States and China in conflict. He will show that in order to make sense of the current state of politics, economics, and technology, we must first understand the vital role played by chips.

Bio: is Eurasia Program Director at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He also serves as Assistant Professor of International History at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and as a Director at Greenmantle, a New York and London-based macroeconomic and geopolitical consultancy. He is the author of three previous books—Putinomics, The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy, and We Shall Be Masters—and he frequently writes for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The American Interest, and other outlets. He received a PhD in history from Yale University and a BA in history from Harvard University.

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