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How a Chinese AI Giant Made Chatting—and Surveillance—Easy
In 1937, the year that George Orwell was shot in the neck while fighting fascists in Spain, Julian Chen was born in Shanghai. His parents, a music teacher and a chemist, enrol...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Chip titan TSMC caught in crossfire between US and China
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Not even the coronavirus pandemic is stopping the vast expansion plans of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. In the southern Taiwanese city of Tainan, in tropical sunshin...
By Martijn Rasser
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New Russian Robot Can Climb Stairs And Blow Up Bombs
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The Syrian civil war is nearly a decade-long tragedy, a geopolitical mess, and a proving ground for Russian military technology. Among that technology is a new iteration of th...
By Samuel Bendett
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Anja Manuel Discusses U.S.-China Relations on Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
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Anja Manuel, former US State Department official, Director of the Aspen Security Forum, author of This Brave New World: China, India and the U.S. She discussed the rise in US-...
By Anja Manuel
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China’s Disinformation Campaign Targets Virus, Researcher Says
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An army of bot accounts linked to an alleged Chinese government-backed propaganda campaign is spreading disinformation on social media about coronavirus and other topics, incl...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Startups are transforming global trade in the COVID-19 era
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Global trade watchers breathed a sigh of relief on January 15, 2020. After two years of threats, tariffs and tweets, there was finally a truce in the trade war between the U....
By Anja Manuel
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CNAS Technology Alliance Project Announces API and MERICS Partnership with Support from Schmidt Futures
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The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce a partnership with the Asia Pacific Initiative (API) and the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS)...
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Robots Will Replace Soldiers In Combat, Says Russia
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For Russia, the question of robots taking over the role of soldiers on the battlefield is a matter of when, not if. “Living fighters will gradually begin to be replaced by the...
By Samuel Bendett
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Power is ‘up for grabs’: Behind China’s plan to shape the future of next-generation tech
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China is set to release an ambitious 15-year blueprint that will lay out its plans to set the global standards for the next-generation of technologies. The move could have wid...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Drone Maker Creates Ventilators For The War On Coronavirus
Across the world, people breathlessly await to see what extraordinary measures it will take to survive the pandemic. Turkey’s Baykar, makers of the Bayraktar-TB drone, has tur...
By Samuel Bendett
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Putin Is Projecting Strength In the Face of Coronavirus. But the Image is Cracked
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The Kremlin is trying to project an image of competence and power as the pandemic roils the world, and aiming to conceal a darker reality back home: an uneven healthcare syste...
By Samuel Bendett
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Gathering intelligence during a pandemic
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The Intelligence Community by many accounts was on to the possibility of a pandemic like this one for a long time. Well, now that it’s here, what effect might the pandemic be ...
By Martijn Rasser
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Algorithmic Warfare: Hackers Take Advantage of Mass Teleworking
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Adversaries are likely to exploit the widespread movement toward teleworking by government workers and federal contractors during the COVID-19 pandemic, experts warn. Essye M...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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Peace Storm: Turkey tries to turn the tables in Libya
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As conflict flares up once again in Libya, Turkey is again trying to shape the outcome through its military intervention. However, it is unclear whether either side in the Lib...
By Samuel Bendett
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CNAS Launches New Initiative: America and the Post-Pandemic World
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) today announced the launch of a major initiative on America and the Post-Pandemic World. Leveraging CNAS’ unique multidisciplinar...
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The U.S. vs. China: Who Is Winning the Key Technology Battles?
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In a world where geopolitical power is increasingly linked to technological advancement, the U.S. has long led its rivals. American companies make some of the world’s fastest ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Turkey Is The Middle East's Newest Drone Super Power
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Key point: Damascus’s forces lack the technology reliably to defeat attacks by unmanned aerial vehicles. Turkey might never develop its own stealth fighter, but the country ha...
By Samuel Bendett
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America does not want China to dominate 5G mobile networks
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In the 1990s America’s telecoms industry was split between two rival factions. On one side were the “bellheads”, named after the former telephone monopolist, Bell, and represe...
By Elsa B. Kania
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JAIC readies ‘AI champions’ as commission recommends doubling R&D spending
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For the United States to stay on top of the global arms race for artificial intelligence, a commission stood up by Congress recommended a two-fold path: Collaborate with its c...
By Robert O. Work
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YouTube profits from videos promoting unproven Covid-19 treatments
YouTube is profiting from videos promoting unproven coronavirus treatments, a new report has found, as the company struggles to crack down on misinformation. The Google-owned ...
By Megan Lamberth
