Tech Diplomacy Now: IPEF takes shape
For the past 18 months, the United States has tried to formulate a new vision for economic relations across the Indo-Pacific with the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework. It is built around a shared visi
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Advanced Aerospace Technology
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Top News of the Week – IPEF takes shape
For the past 18 months, the United States has tried to formulate a new vision for economic relations across the Indo-Pacific with the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework. It is built around a shared vision of resilience and fairness in the face on predatory economic behavior by China. While the United States and the other 13 countries involved in IPEF rarely mentioned China by name, the effort its clearly directed at formulating economic bulwarks against Beijing.
Next week, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai will hold the third ministerial meeting of IPEF in San Francisco right before the annual APEC summit (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation). About half of the 21 members of APEC are also members of IPEF.
In May 2023, the members of IPEF negotiated a supply chain agreement to reduce the risk of disruptions for critical supply chains. Next week, the countries will seek to make progress on the other three pillars of IPEF: Trade, Clean Economy and Fair Economy.
More background:
United States to Host Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) Ministerial in San Francisco – U.S. Department of Commerce, November 6, 2023
India likely to close discussions on 2 more IPEF pillars in US next week – Business Standard, November 6, 2023
IPEF supply chain agreement released – East Asia Forum, October 16, 2023
Substantial Conclusion of Negotiations on Landmark IPEF Supply Chain Agreement – U.S. Department of Commerce, May 27, 2023
Announcements
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Purdue University’s eXcellence in Manufacturing and Operations Initiative, or XMO, hosted its first national summit, bringing together a dynamic coalition of partners in academia, government and industry to discuss building resilient U.S. infrastructure for and with advanced manufacturing and operations (M&O). The aim is to build a resilient U.S. infrastructure physically, digitally and sustainably for M&O at scale.
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Krach Institute CEO, Michelle Giuda joined the Concordia Summit in North Carolina to talk about the growing need for critical technologies and how technology investments will strengthen America’s position as a technological leader.
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Latest News
Flights tracking North Korean sanctions busters anger China – Financial Times, November 6, 2023
US consultancy Gallup withdraws from China – Financial Times, November 5, 2023
Putin revokes Russian ratification of global nuclear test ban treaty – Reuters, November 3, 2023
It’s U.S. vs. China in an Increasingly Divided World Economy – WSJ, November 3, 2023
Lawmakers say Costco’s decision to continue selling banned China surveillance tech is ‘puzzling’ – TechCrunch, November 2, 2023
Technology Strategy and Policy
How to Exploit Russia’s Addiction to Western Technology – Foreign Affairs, November 3, 2023
China Stealing U.S. Research: Congress Demands Answers – Newsweek, November 3, 2023
Apple Sales Decline as China Market Weighs on Earnings Report – WSJ, November 2, 2023
Establishing a New Multilateral Export Control Regime – CSIS, November 2, 2023
U.K.’s AI Safety Summit Ends with Limited, but Meaningful, Progress – Time, November 2, 2023
Artificial Intelligence
AI risks are unknown even to GCHQ, Anne Keast-Butler tells BBC – BBC, November 4, 2023
The Bletchley Declaration by Countries Attending the AI Safety Summit, 1-2 November 2023 – UK Government, November 2, 2023
Chinese tech companies delve into robotics, eyeing link to AI – Nikkei Asia, November 1, 2023
Chinese AI start-up Baichuan claims to beat Anthropic, OpenAI with model that can process 350,000 Chinese characters – SCMP, October 31, 2023
Biden Issues Executive Order to Create A.I. Safeguards – NYTs, October 30, 2023
Telecommunications Networks and Infrastructure
Huawei and Tencent spearhead China's hold on cybersecurity patents – Nikkei Asia, November 5, 2023
Investors Aren’t Buying Apple’s New iPhone – WSJ, November 3, 2023
Microsoft is overhauling its software security after major Azure cloud attacks – The Verge, November 2, 2023
A Platform Storing TikTok Corporate Secrets Was Inspected by The Chinese Government – Forbes, November 1, 2023
Critical Minerals
As Australian leader heads to China, a critical (minerals) issue looms – Washington Post, November 3, 2023
Collapse of trade deal talks to scuttle EU critical mineral access – Australian Financial Review, October 30, 2023
Australia doubles critical minerals funding with $1.2bn boost – Nikkei Asia, October 26, 2023
Canada wants to be a global leader in critical minerals. Why is Australia eating our lunch? – The Globe and Mail, October 14, 2023
Synthetic Biology
China wants to win the gene therapy race—and it’ll spend millions – MIT Technology Review, November 1, 2023
Urgent Steps Needed to Safeguard Rapidly Advancing AI-Bioscience Technologies – NTI, October 30, 2023
DNA writing technologies moving toward synthetic genomes – Nature, October 26, 2023
Ozempic: Metabolizing the market – Quartz, October 18, 2023
Quantum
The Innovation Race: US-China Science and Technology Competition and the Quantum Revolution – Wilson Center, October 2023
Advanced Aerospace Technology
South Korea plans to launch its first military spy satellite on Nov. 30 – Quartz, November 6, 2023
China’s first full-scale reusable rocket test fuels iSpace Hyperbola-3 ambitions – SCMP, November 3, 2023
U.S. Space Force chief urges universal rules to keep China in check – Nikkei Asia, November 1, 2023
China aims to launch nearly 13,000 satellites to ‘suppress’ Elon Musk’s Starlink, researchers say – SCMP, February 24, 2023
Semiconductors and Microelectronics
One of the World’s Biggest Diamonds Could Be Key to Some of the World’s Fastest Microchips – WSJ, November 3, 2023
China warms to U.S. chipmaker Micron, as tensions with Washington ease – Reuters, November 3, 2023
Costs of US chip curbs force China’s YMTC into major fundraising round – Financial Times, November 2, 2023
‘Our secret weapon’: how a university bolstered Phoenix’s rise as US chip capital – Financial Times, November 2, 2023
Energy and Climate
Orsted wants out of $300M forfeiture for scrapped New Jersey offshore wind farms – Quartz, November 6, 2023
U.S.-China EV Race Heats Up with Forthcoming Guidance on 'Foreign Entity of Concern' Rules – CSIS, November 2, 2023
South China Sea brims with rare earth and renewable power promise – Nikkei Asia, November 2, 2023
Sodium batteries offer an alternative to tricky lithium – The Economist, October 26, 2023
Opinion and Commentary
Why Do Young Americans Support Hamas? Look at TikTok. – Rep Mike Gallagher, The Free Press, November 2, 2023
Why I don’t lose sleep over AI - Celia Walden, The Spectator, November 4, 2023
AI Needs Rules, but Who Will Get to Make Them? – Chris Stokel-Walker, Scientific American, November 3, 2023
Tools of economic statecraft are powerful — and can cause lasting harm – Julia Friedlander and Josh Lipsky, Politico, November 2, 2023
India's Need for a National Security Strategy Cannot Be Ignored – Shivshankar Menon, The Wire, November 1, 2023
Tensions in Middle East threaten security in Asia – Hiroyuki Akita, Nikkei Asia, October 29, 2023
The Last Word
“Together, we are creating a roadmap for cooperation and aligning objectives to meet our economic goals for our workers, our businesses, and our communities. Our success will fuel economic activity and investment across our borders and throughout the region.”
Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, speaking on the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, September 8, 2022
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