Rep. Mast: This is about maintaining 21st-century technological supremacy

House Committee on Foreign Affairs · January 14, 2026

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Opening: AI as national security priority

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Speaker 1 opened by arguing that "winning the AI arms race" is essential to U.S. national and economic security and that AI superiority affects military competitiveness with China; he framed the stakes as existential and binary.

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The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee framed artificial intelligence and advanced chips as central to U.S.-China military competition and described his bill "AI Overwatch" to restrict cutting-edge chip use by the Chinese military; he argued for congressional oversight of sensitive chip exports.

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