Pillar 3: Asserting 10x U.S. Global Leadership

Growing geostrategic competition with China demands asserting American influence on the global stage. China seeks to overtake America’s leadership role—across economic, military, and social spheres—and is proactively working to define the rules of the road for the second half of the century and building the economic and strategic alliances to underpin its dominance. The United States must robustly engage on the international stage to collaborate with strategic allies to counter adversaries and secure America’s leadership position at the helm of the world order.

Recommendations

1. Accelerate U.S. technology statecraft to enhance soft power and advance U.S. economic and security interests globally.
   
2. The U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Department of State, along with the U.S. Trade Representative, U.S. Export-Import (EXIM) Bank, and other financing agencies, must strongly advocate for U.S. interests in technology regulations, standards setting, procurement policy, and the illegality of forced technology transfer requirements.
   
3. Increase the number of Americans working in multilateral organizations, from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), The World Trade Organization (WTO), International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Finance Corporation (IFC), and the World Bank to advance U.S. interests and forge deeper partnerships in the developing world.
   
4. Decouple from China on frontier, dual-use technology R&D activities in concert with expanding strategic, resilient partnerships with allies and emerging nations in Africa, Latin America, and Asia.
   
5. Globally promote the role of I.P. protection and enforcement as essential platforms for attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and technology collaboration, while vigorously enforcing strong, swift penalties for I.P. infringement of U.S. products and services.
   
6. Require state-of-the-art cyber security protection in all federally funded R&D programs, bilateral R&D partnerships, and multilateral large-scale research facilities, such as CERN and ITER.
   
7. Expand the resources and mandate of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to review foreign investments in VC funds, private equity, and start-ups in frontier, dual-use technology, such as A.I. quantum, advanced semiconductors, cybersecurity, biotechnology, and space.
   
8. Increase the number of American students, researchers, scholars, and participants in R&D educational programs with strategic allies and partner nations.