Tech Diplomacy Now: Playing to Win: Michelle Giuda on U.S. & allied tech leadership at Purdue's CHIPS for America Summit
The U.S. and its allies must compete and win against our adversaries in critical and emerging tech – but there is a fundamental difference between playing to win versus playing to not lose.
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Playing to Win: Michelle Giuda on U.S. & allied tech leadership at Purdue's CHIPS for America Summit
The United States marks 248 years of freedom and independence this July 4th.
At Purdue University’s “CHIPS for America: Execute for Global Success” Summit recently held at the U.S. Senate, Michelle Giuda, CEO of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue, outlines what it will take to maintain a safe, free and prosperous future defined in almost every way by new technology. The imperative? The U.S. and its allies must compete and win against our adversaries in critical and emerging tech – but there is a fundamental difference between playing to win versus playing to not lose.
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Top News of the Week: Delhi and Washington deepen cooperation on advanced technology
Recently, American and Indian national security advisors met in Delhi for the second meeting of the U.S.-India initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET). The meeting laid out a path fo
Key Takeaways:
Both countries will fund a U.S.-India Global Challenges Institute which spans American and Indian institutions of higher learning, along with co-funding of research awards by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Indian Department of Science and Technology.
Both countries agreed to resolving regulatory barriers for startups operating in each country’s markets. This budding science and technology partnership stands in contrast to the degree that the United States has turned away from a similar partnership that once existed with the PRC. Indian students in the United States have already surpassed the number of PRC students.
More Background:
India Could Help the U.S. to Tech Victory Over China – Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, June 19, 2024
Review Meeting of the India-U.S. initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET) – Indian Ministry of External Affairs, June 18, 2024
JOINT FACT SHEET: The United States and India Continue to Chart an Ambitious Course for the Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology – White House, June 17, 2024
Advancing the India-U.S. Partnership on AI – CEIP, February 20, 2024
The Strategic Convergence of the U.S.-India Innovation Partnership – CSIS, December 22, 2023
Tech cooperation defines India-US strategic alignment – ORF, July 3, 2023
Latest News
China and U.S. Both Eye Breakthrough EV Technology - Wall Street Journal, July 2, 2024
China says US targeting of AI not helpful to healthy development - Reuters, July 1, 2024
German vice chancellor warns China of consequences of Russia stance – DPA, June 22, 2024
Despite fentanyl crackdown, Chinese sellers are open for business – Washington Post, June 20, 2024
Technology Strategy and Policy
How underwater drones could shape a potential Taiwan-China conflict – MIT Technology Review, June 20, 2024
Action Plan for U.S. Leadership in Advanced Manufacturing – SCSP, June 18, 2024
War Machine: The Networks Supplying & Sustaining the Russian Precision Machine Tool Arsenal – C4ADS, June 18, 2024
Charting trade chokepoints: a how-to guide – Rana Foroohar, Financial Times, June 9, 2024
Artificial Intelligence
How AI is changing warfare – The Economist, June 20, 2024
China’s Military AI Roadblocks: PRC Perspectives on Technological Challenges to Intelligentized Warfare – CSET, June 2024
China’s Tope AI Startups Enter U.S., Defying Political Tensions – The Information, June 19, 2024
Apple is looking for an OpenAI alternative in China — where there is no ChatGPT – Quartz, June 19, 2024
Why Does AI Hallucinate? – MIT Technology Review, June 18, 2024
Negotiating technical standards for artificial intelligence – ASPI, June 13, 2024
Telecommunications Networks and Infrastructure
US bans sale of Kaspersky software citing security risk from Russia – TechCrunch, June 20, 2024
TikTok slams U.S. in challenge to possible ban: Punishment ‘was the point’ – Washington Post, June 20, 2024
PRC State-Sponsored Actors Compromise and Maintain Persistent Access to U.S. Critical Infrastructure – CISA, February 7, 2024
Critical Minerals
Saudi Arabia’s and the UAE’s Quest for African Critical Minerals – Arab Gulf States Institute, June 20, 2024
AI Develops "Ground-Breaking" New Magnet Free of Rare Earth Metals – IFL Science, June 20, 2024
Europe Aims to Reduce Reliance on China for Critical Minerals – OilPrice.com, June 18, 2024
Enormous deposit of rare earth elements discovered in heart of ancient Norwegian volcano – LiveScience, June 12, 2024
China has a ‘near monopoly’ on many critical minerals. JPMorgan says it could be the next battleground with the U.S. – Fortune, June 10, 2024
Synthetic Biology
Chinese scientists find natural selection loophole that could help transform food security – SCMP, June 23, 2024
Chinese biologist Chai Jijie cracks plant immune system puzzle – SCMP, June 22, 2024
Cheaper versions of blockbuster obesity drugs are being created in India and China – Nature, June 19, 2024
Quantum
Government’s $189.5m quantum computing VC investment revealed – Australian Financial Review, June 17, 2024
The Quantum Technology Ecosystem – Explained – Steve Blank, March 22, 2022
Advanced Aerospace Technology
SpaceX unveils backpack-sized ‘Starlink Mini’ satellite internet antenna for $599 – CNBC, June 20, 2024
Swarms over the Strait: Drone Warfare in a Future Fight to Defend Taiwan – CNAS, June 20, 2024
Semiconductors and Microelectronics
Tiny Singapore’s chip hub retains a big punch – Reuters, June 21, 2024
TSMC explores radical new chip packaging approach to feed AI boom – Nikkei Asia, June 20, 2024
Intel pitches foundry services to Chinese clients: can they use non-US fabs? – DigiTimes Asia, June 19, 2024
US weighs more limits on China's access to AI chips, Bloomberg reports – Bloomberg, June 11, 2024
Energy and Climate
German economy minister Robert Habeck urges China to shift away from coal power – SCMP, June 23, 2024
Xi’s climate goals boost China’s nuclear industry – Financial Times, June 21, 2024
Europe’s EV Battery Plans Fade on China Price War, US Aid – Bloomberg, June 20, 2024
China Is Building Europe Battery Supply in Morocco, VW Unit Says – Bloomberg, June 19, 2024
Opinion and Commentary
Confronting Another Axis? History, Humility, and Wishful Thinking – Philip Zelikow, TNSR, Summer 2024
In an Insecure World, Americans Should Look South – Eric Fransworth, Baron’s, June 18, 2024
‘Digital Twins’ Could Revolutionize Planes, Cars and Hearts – Will Roper and Eric Schmidt, WSJ, June 18, 2024
The President Needs to Lead the Cold War on China: A comprehensive economic strategy can forestall Beijing– Randy Schriver, Dan Blumenthal, and Josh Young, Foreign Policy, June 17, 2024
Washington assumes erroneously that China, Russia and Iran want ‘stability.’ – Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, June 17, 2024
Inside China’s ‘soft siege’ of Taiwan – Rana Mitter, The Spectator, June 16, 2024
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