Greater than the sum of its parts: Inside the US effort to block Chinese AI hardware Northeastern Global News spoke to Ryan Ellis, an infrastructure politics and cybersecurity expert, about the U.S. effort to check China’s AI industry. The United States is doubling down on efforts to block Chinese AI components and tech. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern UniversityThe FCC has framed this as a national security issue. You can’t really disentangle questions of economic competitiveness, economic rivalry, national security concerns and geostrategic concerns. Ellis: The language of national security is a really powerful rhetorical tool, and invoking concerns around national security is often quite compelling.