Program
Technology and International Affairs
Major Power Tech Relations

Carnegie’s Technology and International Affairs Program develops practical insights to help policymakers understand and navigate how technology shapes the evolution of the political and economic relationships of major powers.

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Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology
August 21, 2023

Please join Anu Bradford for an engaging online discussion of Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology and the choices we face as societies and individuals, the forces that shape those choices, and the huge stakes involved for everyone who uses digital technologies.

In The Media
in the media
China Developing Capability to Hack Satellites

What might be the implications of a cyberweapon that can hack satellites?

· April 24, 2023
The World
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Digital Authoritarianism: A Growing Threat
April 24, 2023

Join us for a special event featuring the Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines in conversation with Carnegie’s Dan Baer on combatting digital authoritarianism.

In The Media
in the media
China’s Spy Balloon Is a Teachable Moment

Espionage is a fact of life, yet U.S. discourse often fails to distinguish severe incidents from banal ones. If this pattern continues, the next Chinese spying scandal—however trivial—may spark a true bilateral crisis.

· February 9, 2023
MSNBC
In The Media
in the media
The U.S. Seeks to Cut off China From Dutch Semiconductors

There’s a lot of legitimate concerns with China’s rise and its use of advanced technology. But if Washington moves too fast and too far to cut off the technological relationship with China, it could damage U.S. interests as well.

· January 17, 2023
NPR
In The Media
in the media
The Fevered Anti-China Attitude in Washington Is Going to Backfire

merica has embarked on one of its most difficult and dangerous international challenges since the Cold War. The task: reversing decades of economic and technological integration with its chief rival, China.

· December 15, 2022
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After the CHIPS Act: The Limits of Reshoring and Next Steps for U.S. Semiconductor Policy

As America’s conscious foray into industrial policy, the CHIPS Act is an important political breakthrough and a potentially transformative piece of legislation.

· November 22, 2022
In The Media
in the media
America’s Risky New China Policy

Washington has dramatically expanded controls on technology flowing to and from Beijing by imposing aggressive sanctions targeting China’s chip and semiconductor industry. What impact will these changes have on the broader U.S.-China relationship?

· November 1, 2022
paper
Engaging China on Strategic Stability and Mutual Vulnerability

The U.S. and Chinese governments, for the foreseeable future, will have the resources to keep each other’s society vulnerable to nuclear mass destruction.

· October 12, 2022
In The Media
in the media
Biden Is Now All-In on Taking Out China

The United States has waged low-grade economic warfare against China for at least four years now, b ut Washington’s endgame for this conflict has always been hazy. A regulatory filing from a little-known federal agency may give the strongest hint yet of U.S. intentions.

· October 12, 2022
commentary
U.S. Sanctions on Hikvision Would Dangerously Escalate China Tech Tensions

Adding the company to the SDN List could lead to unpredictable consequences for the United States and the world.

· May 6, 2022
report
U.S.-China Technological “Decoupling”: A Strategy and Policy Framework

A partial “decoupling” of U.S. and Chinese technology ecosystems is well underway. Without a clear strategy, Washington risks doing too little or—more likely—too much to curb technological interdependence.

· April 25, 2022