If you are interested in the difficult strategic choices Germany and Europe have to make in the next months and years you have to read Timothy Garton Ash in the current edition of NYR. He offers tough messages. And we cannot afford to ignore them.

The CEO of Saudi Arabia’s new $100b tech investment fund told Marion Halftermeyer that the country would divest from China if the US asks

So far, US requests of Saudi Arabia re: AI/chip tech have focused on keeping US & Chinese supply chains separate, he said
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Tomorrow at 3 pm ET, CSIS Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program welcomes Jovita Neliupšienė Jovita Neliupšienė, former Asst. Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Karen Donfried, and European Parliament Liaison Office head Walter Goetz to discuss the upcoming EU and U.S. elections.

Register: csis.org/events/super-e…

JUST IN: This April was hottest on record for the planet. It's the 11th straight hottest month.

This is 'the latest sign that humans are in uncharted climate territory,' writes Scott Dance.

Read more: washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/0…

Italian government design is next level

'Geopolitical and technological competition with China over semiconductors has focused overwhelmingly on the most advanced semiconductors' csis.org/analysis/evalu…

Good piece by Emily Benson , Pau Alvarez-Aragones, and AU School of International Service/ #SchumanChallenge alum Catharine Mouradian!

Incredible evening with the Ambassadors of Ukraine and the European Union to the United States.

'Everything we took for granted is now in question.' - Jovita Neliupšienė

'Sometimes you make choices, and sometimes choices make you.' -Oksana Markarova

European Commission has published a 700 page guide to distortions in the Chinese economy.

It's designed to help furnish EU companies who want to make official complaints over Chinese dumping with factual evidence to build out their case.

policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/news/commissio…

A major challenge in assessing China's potential weaponization of legacy-node chips is the lack of data. The transatlantic alliance needs better access to better data.

Read the analysis from Emily Benson, Catharine Mouradian, and Pau Alvarez-Aragones:
csis.org/analysis/evalu…

An absolute can't miss event tomorrow (Tuesday!) - great insights on the EU and Ukraine geopolitics, not to mention leadership lessons from these two amazingly successful women leaders Jovita Neliupšienė WIIT - DC see you there!

A major challenge in assessing China's potential weaponization of legacy-node chips is the lack of data. The transatlantic alliance needs better access to better data.

Read the analysis from Emily Benson, Catharine Mouradian, and Pau Alvarez-Aragones:
csis.org/analysis/evalu…

Blue checks are the aristocracy of Twitter, but as in the Ancien Regime, they can be divided into Noblesse de Robe and Noblesse de Pay.

SK Hynix plans to spend $3.87 billion building an advanced packaging plant and research center for artificial intelligence products in Indiana, as part of a total $15 billion the firm has pledged to invest in the US

w/ Yoolim Lee bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

My thoughts on Lighthizer's book are complicated. To add to the confusion, here are some memes that badly capture my thoughts. I will not be taking questions at this time, as it's cocktail hour. Happy Friday.

Remembering you’re American when all the Europeans are on Easter holiday.

Must-read from Agathe Demarais on the perils of using export controls in the renewable energy context. This would strain relations w/ allies, fuel resentment against democracies, and show the US is comfortable weaponizing the fight against climate change.
us.boell.org/en/2024/03/06/…

Not sure why this hasn't made more news... The The FCC has voted to create a voluntary cybersecurity labeling program for IoT goods. Long overdue, imho (coming from a household with very limited #IoT devices for surveillance capability reasons).
latimes.com/california/sto…

South Korea is tapping into a multinational framework to review export controls for sensitive products like semiconductor-related equipment, Sam Kim reports

The US is pressing South Korea to restrict chip tool sales to China
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