Procurement Documents Reveal AI Chip Workarounds
Executive Summary: Procurement records suggest that U.S. export controls on frontier artificial intelligence (AI) chips imposed meaningful constraints until January 2026, as institutions in the...
Sunny Cheung is a Fellow for China Studies at The Jamestown Foundation. He is also a Global Fellow at the Research Institute for Democracy, Society and Emerging Technology (DSET) and an International Strategic Forum (ISF) Fellow at the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP). He specializes in Chinese politics, cross-strait relations, emerging technologies, and security issues. Before joining Jamestown, Mr. Cheung completed research projects for Janes Information Services, Project 2049, Academia Sinica, and the US Department of State. He was a visiting fellow at Stanford University, Johns Hopkins University and National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan. Mr. Cheung has testified before the US Congress, UK Parliament, and Taiwanese Legislative Yuan. He was named a Global Leader by the McCain Institute in 2023.
His analysis and commentary have been widely published and featured in media outlets, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Bloomberg, Washington Post, DW News, Nikkei Asia, BBC, U.S. News, NBC News, NPR, Guardian, Al Jazeera, Fox News, Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, South China Morning Post, The Strategist, and C-SPAN.
Mr. Cheung earned an M.A. in Strategic Studies from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) as a Dean’s Scholar and holds a B.A. in China Studies and Politics from the University of Hong Kong.
