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1: We’ve added a whopping 11 new scholars to our Washington-based @CarnegieEndow Asia programs over the last three years - six full-time and five nonresident scholars. They are brilliant, innovative, and disruptive to conventional wisdom. If you don’t read their work, you should! 
2: Our unique #IndianOceanInitiative and our islands program are both led by the amazing @darshanabaruah. Her work explores maritime security, India’s naval strategy, island agency in shaping great power competition, and maritime partnerships. carnegieendowment.org/experts/1253
3: We've also done a major buildout in our work on Asian technology futures, not least by welcoming @mattsheehan88, who deeply understands China's tech ecosystem. He studies China’s AI ecosystem - and the role of technology in China’s political economy. carnegieendowment.org/experts/2116
1/4 The US and Japan have had a security alliance for decades. But they now aim to layer a deepened technology and innovation alliance atop this enduring security and economic alliance. In important twinned essays, my #CarnegieAsia teammate @kenjikushida explores what this means.
2/4 For one, while official Washington and Tokyo have committed to make technology collaboration a centerpiece of US-Japan relations, the critical step will be to enhance *private* sector–led innovation, not least in Silicon Valley. carnegieendowment.org/2022/03/09/how…
3/4 For another, both sides need to better understand the business and industry logic, not just high-minded strategic and political logic, of how and where the private sector creates value. This means cultivating enhanced ties between startup ecosystems. carnegieendowment.org/2022/06/07/how…
1: Good piece on competition in Central Asia with quotes from a #CarnegieAsia scholar and external author. My two cents: If the US wants to compete, it had best treat countries as subjects of their own stories, not objects of America's own competition with another external power.
2: Central Asian elites are nobody's fools about Chinese power. But they aren't naive about American power either. And with Taliban victory, much of what's happening in the region has, frankly, been de-Americanized and is instead being regionalized. They, not we, drive the play.
3: And their objectives include straightforward ones: employment, growth, development, increased bargaining power with external sources of pressure, more options, more value-added left in the region. US hectoring about China can be an abstraction; nobody is ostriching or naive.
How did China go from a technological backwater to an innovation powerhouse in just 20 years?
It's a big question with big implications for 🇨🇳, 🇺🇸, and 🌍. I take a crack at answering it in my new piece for @ForeignAffairs.
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foreignaffairs.com/articles/china…
It's a big question with big implications for 🇨🇳, 🇺🇸, and 🌍. I take a crack at answering it in my new piece for @ForeignAffairs.
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foreignaffairs.com/articles/china…
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First, what the piece is not doing:
It's not providing the be-all-end-all explanation that covers all variables. I had 2,000 words. 🤷♂️
What it is trying to do:
Provide a coherent framework for understanding the main policy drivers of China's innovation boom.
First, what the piece is not doing:
It's not providing the be-all-end-all explanation that covers all variables. I had 2,000 words. 🤷♂️
What it is trying to do:
Provide a coherent framework for understanding the main policy drivers of China's innovation boom.
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Most individual Chinese innovations (e.g. the hyper addictive TikTok feed) are the product of creative thinking by hardworking technologists.
At the micro level of individual startups, tech co's or labs, that process looks pretty similar in 🇨🇳,🇺🇸,🇪🇺 and🌍.
Most individual Chinese innovations (e.g. the hyper addictive TikTok feed) are the product of creative thinking by hardworking technologists.
At the micro level of individual startups, tech co's or labs, that process looks pretty similar in 🇨🇳,🇺🇸,🇪🇺 and🌍.
🚨Uzbekistan 🇺🇿 foreign minister calls for:
Immediate cessation of violence in Ukraine
Asks Russia 🇷🇺 and Ukraine 🇺🇦 to come to a peaceful resolution
Refuses to acknowledge independence of Luhansk and Donetsk
Recognizes Ukraine’s territorial integrity gazeta.uz/ru/2022/03/17/…
Immediate cessation of violence in Ukraine
Asks Russia 🇷🇺 and Ukraine 🇺🇦 to come to a peaceful resolution
Refuses to acknowledge independence of Luhansk and Donetsk
Recognizes Ukraine’s territorial integrity gazeta.uz/ru/2022/03/17/…
Foreign Minister Kamilov reaffirms to his parliament that Uzbekistan does not get involved in foreign military blocs or war efforts. gazeta.uz/ru/2021/01/19/…
Ukraine’s ambassador to Uzbekistan 🇺🇿 confirms that Tashkent has quietly sent 28 tons of humanitarian assistance to Ukraine 🇺🇦 gazeta.uz/ru/2022/03/11/…
1: Thread ... I've spent much of the pandemic building programs at @CarnegieEndow but I've done a good bit of writing too, and a boatload of podcasts and talks. Some highlights: five on Taiwan, two on Korea, four on U.S. statecraft in Asia, three on China, two for the historians.
2: Taiwan #1 ... In the first of three big studies of Taiwan's competitiveness, I argued that its innovation advantage is in danger of eroding without a revitalized strategy and much more diverse investments in human capital and next-generation industries: carnegieendowment.org/2020/01/29/ass…
3: Taiwan #2 ... In the second of these studies, I turned with Jen-yi Hou to how Taiwan's traditional energy market risks are being eclipsed by a "trilemma" of new challenges: how to assure future energy security, affordability, and sustainability: carnegieendowment.org/2020/04/27/ove…
1: I’m absolutely thrilled to launch my new volume with colleague @MikeNelson—“The Korean Way With Data: How the World’s Most Wired Country is Forging a Third Way.” It’s part of our big buildout underway at @CarnegieEndow on technology futures in Asia: carnegieendowment.org/2021/08/17/kor…
2: I’m deeply grateful to @KoreaFoundation for its support of the project, and to our fabulous Korean colleagues: Jang GyeHyun, Lim Jong-in, So Jeong Kim, Nohyoung Park, Sunha Bae, and Kyung Sin “KS” Park. @KoreaFoundUSA.
3. Many argue that the world is fracturing into two spheres—either a Sinocentric or US-centric order. As we move into the next phase of the digital transformation, what was once viewed as a commercial and technological competition is now framed as an existential geopolitical one.
