Tech Diplomacy Now: EU Announces Restrictions on Technology to China
On Tuesday, the European Union announced a set of technologies that Member States will restrict to China
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Top News of the Week
Global Tech Security Commission Update
Latest News
Technology Strategy and Policy
Artificial Intelligence
Telecommunications Networks and Infrastructure
Critical Minerals
Synthetic Biology
Quantum
Advanced Aerospace Technology
Semiconductors and Microelectronics
Energy and Climate
Opinion and Commentary
The Last Word
Top News of the Week – EU Announces Restrictions on Technology to China
On Tuesday, the European Union announced a set of technologies that Member States will restrict to China. As well as opening the path to additional tariffs, investment restrictions, and denial of public contracts to companies associated with countries engaged in economic coercion (read: China).
Despite significant lobbying by Beijing, as well as by certain European companies, national security arguments largely prevailed after years of Chinese threats and coercion. Beijing’s increasing support to Russia’s war in Ukraine likely tipped the scales in Brussels as European diplomats conclude that Beijing does not intend to play a constructive role in pressuring Putin to end his war.
For the most part, this announcement aligns Brussels, Washington and Tokyo, about 50% of global GDP, in a technology coalition against China. As these restrictions bite, China’s economic and technological progress will run into even more serious troubles.
More background:
EU to Reveal List of Critical Tech as China Concerns Grow – Bloomberg, October 2, 2023
EU to assess risks of critical technologies being weaponised -official – Reuters, October 2, 2023
Export Controls — The Keys to Forging a Transatlantic Tech Shield – Center for European Policy Analysis, July 20, 2023
EU looks to ban companies from making sensitive tech in China – Politico, June 20, 2023
The power of control: How the EU can shape the new era of strategic export restrictions – European Council on Foreign Relations, May 17, 2023
Global Tech Security Commission Update
This week, the Global Tech Security Commission continues its Global Tech Security Insights, a series covering emerging technologies and featuring interviews with those who are developing the definitive global tech security strategy to safeguard freedom through the adoption of trusted technology.
This week, former U.S. Ambassador Todd Chapman, joined to discuss the growing impact of technology on diplomacy and national security and how to counter the emergence of technology from authoritarian regimes.
Chapman, a former U.S. Ambassador to Brazil and Ecuador, was appointed to the Global Tech Security Commission as a Commissioner for Diplomacy, to leverage his vast experience in U.S. foreign relations to describe how technology has disrupted national security over the last 30 years. The Ambassador plans to use his role as Commissioner to carry out its vital mission that technology must advance freedom.
Watch the full Global Tech Security Commission interview HERE.
Latest News
Chinese tech startups are testing self-driving cars on California roads - NBC News, October 3, 2023
Gifts, Gadgets and Greece: Inside a Huawei Lobbying Campaign – NYTs, September 28, 2023
Russia is increasingly using China’s currency to evade sanctions – Financial Times, September 27, 2023
Trade between Russia and China is booming so much that shipping containers are ‘piling up’ – CNN, September 29, 2023
Research institute on democracy and technology founded – Taipei Times, October 3, 2023
Russia and China’s super weapons and the threat of nuclear war – The Telegraph, October 1, 2023
Technology Strategy and Policy
US warns green transition raises ‘complex’ China security concerns – Financial Times, September 29, 2023
EU to unveil technologies targeted in China ‘de-risking’ agenda – SCMP, September 29, 2023
How the People’s Republic of China Seeks to Reshape the Global Information Environment – U.S. State Department, Global Engagement Center, September 28, 2023
US government quizzes British firms on Chinese investment links – Politico, September 29, 2023
Artificial Intelligence
Palantir Wins $250 Million AI Deal with US Defense Department – Bloomberg, September 27, 2023
National Security Agency is starting an artificial intelligence security center – AP, September 28, 2023
Pentagon Urges AI Companies to Share More About Their Technology – Bloomberg, September 29, 2023
AMD CEO Lisa Su on the AI revolution and competing with Nvidia – The Verge, September 29, 2023
Rules to keep AI in check: nations carve different paths for tech regulation – Nature, August 8, 2023
Telecommunications Networks and Infrastructure
Apple’s Latest China Challenge: A Crackdown That Could Shrink Its App Store – WSJ, September 29, 2023
European countries who put curbs on Huawei 5G equipment – Reuters, September 28, 2023
US and Japan warn of Chinese hackers backdooring Cisco routers – Bleeping Computer, September 27, 2023
People's Republic of China-Linked Cyber Actors Hide in Router Firmware – Joint U.S.-Japan Cybersecurity Advisory, September 2023
Germany is failing to protect power groups from cyber-attacks, warns Eon boss – Financial Times, October 1, 2023
Critical Minerals
$67 Billion of Rare Minerals Is Buried Under One of the World’s Biggest Carbon Sinks – WSJ, September 28, 2023
China Dominates the Global Lithium Industry. Can the U.S. Ever Catch Up? – WSJ, October 2, 2023
Korea Zinc expands nickel production to meet US battery demand – Financial Times, October 1, 2023
Synthetic Biology
Touch, Feel, Believe: The U.S. Bioeconomy Comes Alive! – SynBioBeta, September 26, 2023
This CEO wants to get forever chemicals out of our water—and bodies – Fast Company, September 24, 2023
Turning the Tide: Marine Microbes Combat Plastic Pollution – SynBioBeta, September 21, 2023
Quantum
MIT's Superconducting Qubit Breakthrough Boosts Quantum Performance – Tom’s Hardware, September 30, 2023
‘All systems need to be hardened’: Officials, industry sound the alarm on quantum threat to encryption – Breaking Defense, September 29, 2023
New Photon Polarizer Lights Way to Quantum Communications – IEEE Spectrum, September 5, 2023
Advanced Aerospace Technology
Drones Everywhere: How the Technological Revolution on Ukraine Battlefields Is Reshaping
Modern Warfare – WSJ, September 28, 2023
DJI isn’t the only Chinese drone threat to US security. Meet Autel. – Defense News, September 15, 2023
Ukraine’s War of Drones Runs into an Obstacle: China – NYTs, September 30, 2023
Semiconductors and Microelectronics
SMIC, Which Made the Kirin 9000S, Is Just Four Years Behind the Most Advanced Node, U.S.
Sanctions Were Aimed To Limit Capabilities By 10 Years – WCCF Tech, September 30, 2023
Intel hails 'landmark' as high-volume EUV production begins at Irish plant – Reuters, September 29, 2023
China’s economic malaise hits efforts to raise $41bn chip fund – Financial Times, September 27, 2023
Energy and Climate
Chinese battery groups invest in Morocco to serve western markets – Financial Times, September 27, 2023
The world needs cheap electric cars. That spells trouble for big carmakers – CNN, September 29, 2023
Opinion and Commentary
To stay ahead, chip firms look abroad – Taipei Times, October 3, 2023
Mounting discontent augurs badly for EU Green Deal – Rasmus Grand Berthelsen, Politico, September 26, 2023
China's Fukushima blowback follows old Japan-bashing playbook – Hiroyuki Akita, Nikkei Asia, September 13, 2023
US has the trade tools needed for China’s EVs — but it must use them – Wendy Cutler, Financial Times, October 2, 2023
Elon Musk Changed the Way Washington Looks at Space – WSJ, October 1, 2023
The Last Word
“[I]n this critical minerals context, we are up against a dominant supplier that is willing to weaponize market power for political gain.”
- U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm Speaking about China
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