Silicon Triangle: The United States, Taiwan, China, and Global Semiconductor Security
Hoover Institution Semiconductor Security Working Group • July 20, 2023
On July 18, 2023, the Hoover Institution, in partnership with the Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations, released an important new report edited by Larry Diamond, James O. Ellis, Jr., and Orville Schell, entitled "Silicon Triangle: The United States, Taiwan, China, and Global Semiconductor Security." You can find the entire book-length report on Hoover's website here (recommended) or simply use the button below to download Dr. Ford's chapter.
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Dr. Ford wrote Chapter 3 of this volume together with a Chinese-American co-author, and deeply regrets that this co-author has found it necessary to remove his name from the volume due to the risk of retribution against his family back in China by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). One can only hope that a day soon dawns in which such efforts at repressive CCP coercion are a thing of the past. Dr. Ford is deeply grateful to that unnamed co-author for his enormous contributions to the preparation of the chapter.
Below is the text upon which Dr. Ford based his remarks to the Labs Nuclear Scholars Initiative at CSIS on October 20, 2025.
In October 2025, the Next Generation Nuclear Network at the Center for Strategic and International Studies released a long recorded interview with Dr. Ford as part of its Arms Control oral history project entitled “The Negotiator Files.” You can find Dr. Ford's interview here .
Below is the prepared text upon which Dr. Ford based his remarks at an event at Hudson Institute on October 2, 2025, on the U.S. Institute of Peace Senior Study Group on Strategic Stability’s recent report on “ Sustaining the Nuclear Peace .”
Below is the prepared text upon which Dr. Ford based his remarks at a briefing for Congressional staffers on September 30, 2025, organized by the University of Pennsylvania’s Washington Cente r and the Wilson Center .
Below is the prepared text upon which Dr. Ford based his remarks to the “arms control boot camp” program for young national security professionals organized by the CSIS Project on Nuclear Issues in Washington, D.C., on September 30, 2025.
Below are the remarks upon which Dr. Ford based his opening remarks in a webinar on September 23, 2025, sponsored by the National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP).
Below are the remarks Dr. Ford delivered on September 22, 2025, at a conference in Singapore sponsored by the Pacific Forum.
Dr. Ford's essay on the history of Missouri State University's School of Defense and Strategic Studies was published in Defense & Strategic Studies Online (DASSO), vol. 2, no. 1 (Autumn 2025). You can find the whole issue on the DASSO website here , or use the button below to download a PDF of Dr. Ford's piece . (Also, the home page for DASSO can be found here .)
On September 17, 2025, the website Fair Observer published Dr. Ford's essay looking back on the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and musing about the challenges facing America's political culture today. You can find the essay on Fair Observer 's webpage here , or use the button below to download a PDF.
Dr. Ford's article on "Thinking About Strategy in an Artificial Superintelligence Arms Race" -- co-authored with Dr. Craig Wiener -- was published in Defense & Strategic Studies Online (DASSO), vol. 1, no. 4 (Summer 2025). You can find the whole issue on the DASSO website here , or use the button below to download a PDF of the Ford/Wiener article. (Also, the home page for DASSO can be found here .)