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China Is Sabotaging America’s AI Race

Sam Lyman
Episode 190 · 1h 02m · Published 2nd July 2026 · Recorded in London
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About this episode

Sam Lyman joins me to discuss how China is allegedly targeting America’s AI buildout, the activist networks fighting data centres and why the race for AI infrastructure has become a national security battle.

Sam explains how Chinese influence campaigns, open-source AI models, data centre protests and far-left activist groups may be working together to slow the United States down. We discuss Neville Roy Singham, Code Pink, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, foreign influence, anti-data centre campaigns and how billions of dollars in AI infrastructure have reportedly been delayed or blocked.

We also get into open-source AI, DeepSeek, US frontier models, Anthropic, AI export controls, whether AI doom narratives are being used to build regulatory moats, the risk of superintelligence, data centre moratoriums, socialism in America and why Sam believes the battle is now between Chinese AI and American AI.

Chapters

00:00China’s AI War
00:47China Is Sabotaging US AI
01:02The Bot Campaign Against Data Centres
02:03Neville Roy Singham
03:14Why AI Is a Battle for Control
04:18China’s Open-Source AI Strategy
06:12What Americans Fear About AI
08:23Sam’s Background at Treasury and BPI
10:38Is Data Centre Opposition Organic?
12:32The China Influence Network
13:37What Is Code Pink?
16:10The Party for Socialism and Liberation
18:52How Data Centre Protests Slow AI
23:37$24 Billion in AI Buildout Stalled
27:55Why China Wants to Slow US AI
29:12Chinese AI or American AI
32:03Is Chinese AI Harvesting Data?
36:37The US Enters the Open-Source Race
42:52The AI Doomer Debate
54:17The Push for Data Centre Moratoriums