On March 23, 2026, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a Memorandum and Order banning the import of “covered” consumer-grade networking hardware. The decision demonstrates once again how the Trump administration's economic nationalism and its use of “national security” claims as a basis for arbitrary executive-branch actions are having disastrous...
In mid-January 2026, the Chinese government allegedly announced a sweeping ban on cybersecurity software from more than a dozen U.S. and Israeli firms, including industry giants like Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, and Check Point. The stated reason: concerns that foreign software could collect and transmit confidential information abroad. This move...
The Chinese AI and venture capital community was shocked by Meta’s swift acquisition of Manus, an AI agent company from Wuhan, China, in a deal worth an estimated $2–3 billion. For Meta, this deal is its third-largest acquisition to date. It bets on Manus to win the "agentic" AI race...
IGP attended the UN General Assembly meeting in New York December 15 – 17, where a much anticipated “overall review of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society” took place. The “high-level meeting” produced an outcome document that updates the WSIS consensus in the...
For the past four years, AFRINIC, the Regional Address Registry (RIR) for Africa, has been paralyzed by its legal conflict with Cloud Innovation in the Mauritius courts. The root cause of the conflict was a policy dispute over the inter-regional use of IP addresses. (see this article) Keep that root...
The CTO of Palantir Technologies Shyam Sankar recently criticized Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's idea that selling products in China would ultimately serve U.S. interests by making China dependent on American technology. Sankar argued that deepening economic dependence on China would only finance America's own destruction. Huang, for his part, has...
In mid-September 2025, U.S. and Chinese officials convened in Madrid for a high-level negotiation that yielded a breakthrough on the TikTok deal: a “basic framework consensus” for resolving the long dispute over the platform. This meeting marked the fourth round of China–U.S. trade and technology negotiations since Trump announced new...
Inflated expectations, inflated assets, inflated capital investments, bad policy. It’s all got to end pretty soon. Artificial intelligence applications are everywhere. They unlock your phone, correct your spelling, redesign your slide presentations, recommend videos, scan and summarize reports and papers, converse with you. All these use cases are different, yet...
There are many reasons to be concerned about freedom of expression in America these days. But one of them, and perhaps the most insidious, is going under the radar. I am talking about the framework agreement under which TikTok’s US application would be “operated” and substantially controlled by a US...
It’s time to realize that our industrial policy for semiconductors is failing. It was built on three pillars: subsidies to encourage re-shoring of fabrication, export controls that made trade in chips a function of our political alliances; and an attempt to maintain a competitive advantage in the digital by decoupling...
Declaring Independence in Cyberspace tells the story of the struggle between governments and the global Internet community over control of the Internet registries (IANA). It offers new insights into a pressing question with profound implications: is state sovereignty the immutable foundation of global governance, or can new technological capabilities change the model?
“This is a book that needed to be written, and no one is better placed to write it than Milton Mueller. This full, rigorous account provides researchers and policymakers with a precious resource on global internet governance.”
