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In Asia, Disruptive Technonationalism Returns

Thought Leader: Evan Feigenbaum
January 8, 2020
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By Evan A. Feigenbaum (original source Carnegie Endowment For International Peace)

“In a pointed speech on October 24, US Vice President Mike Pence warned that Beijing has “smashed the barriers between civilian and military technological domains.” Pence then offered this flatly contradictory statement of policy: “People sometimes ask whether the Trump Administration seeks to ‘de-couple’ from China. The answer is a resounding ‘no.’”

Here’s the problem: If Pence is right that Beijing leverages all technology for military purposes, then the United States should have no interest in enabling flows of capital, people, hardware, and software that might aid the military modernization of a strategic competitor.”

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