{"id":7079,"date":"2022-10-20T18:10:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T18:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/?p=7079"},"modified":"2022-10-20T18:10:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T18:10:37","slug":"aligning-with-allies-on-tech-innovation-is-critical-to-national-security-top-diplomat-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/aligning-with-allies-on-tech-innovation-is-critical-to-national-security-top-diplomat-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Aligning with allies on Tech Innovation is Critical to National Security, Top Diplomat Says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During a Hoover Institution event, Secretary of State Antony Blinken called working to establish global technology standards \u201ca part of our national interest and our strength around the world.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. must work with its international allies to ensure that its national security interests are considered in global talks around the development and use of innovative technologies, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during a discussion at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution on Monday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blinken\u2014who spoke at the event<\/a> with Hoover Institution Director and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice\u2014said the world is at \u201can inflection point\u201d when it comes to competition between global powers, even as there is a growing need to leverage innovative technologies \u201cto solve big challenges.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have to find ways to make sure that, on technology, we are more aligned with other countries, starting in many cases with close partners in Europe and Asia and then broadening out,\u201d Blinken added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the event, Blinken said that greater tech-centric coordination with global allies would allow the U.S. to push back on the interests of adversaries like Russia and China, while also helping to strengthen supply chains, defend democratic freedoms and ensure that other countries have the resources needed to manufacture semiconductors and other essential technologies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis alignment with other countries\u2014trying to all move in the same direction and trying to work together on shaping some of the norms, the standards, the rules by which technology is used\u2014that\u2019s also profoundly a part of our national interest and our strength around the world,\u201d Blinken said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blinken\u2019s appearance at the Hoover Institution came amid a two-day visit to Silicon Valley, as part of his effort to \u201chighlight the key role for technology diplomacy in advancing U.S. economic and national security,” according to the State Department<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blinken said one concern for the State Department is that leading global challenges\u2014such as issues related to cyberspace and digital policy, climate change, health and food security\u2014haven\u2019t always been its top priorities. That\u2019s why it\u2019s important, he said, for the State Department to \u201cbe fit for the purpose of this moment and the moments to come.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur bread and butter remains issues of war and peace, preventing conflict, helping to end conflict where we can, and making sure that the American people are secure through diplomacy,\u201d Blinken said. \u201cBut each of these issues is directly tied to that. So what we\u2019ve done is we\u2019ve engaged in modernizing the department to make sure that we\u2019re organized in a way\u2014and attract the talent in a way\u2014that allows us to play a leadership role on these issues.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blinken cited the State Department\u2019s establishment of the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy<\/a> in April as a recognition of the need to place a greater emphasis on the national security challenges and global implications of digital technologies. The Senate voted last month<\/a> to confirm Nathaniel Fick, who accompanied Blinken on his trip to California, as the inaugural head of the new bureau. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is how we make sure that we have a place that the expertise can come to in the department, and ultimately we can grow the expertise so that we can engage effectively on these issues,\u201d Blinken said, adding that the State Department is also in the process of establishing a similar bureau focused on global health. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rice pointed to the Biden administration\u2019s recently released national security strategy<\/a>, which included a focus on \u201cinvesting in our strength,\u201d as an example of how safeguarding and promoting domestic technology development and innovation advances U.S. interests around the globe. Blinken called those efforts \u201cquite simply foundational,\u201d noting that we\u2019re in \u201ca moment of intense competition to shape what comes next.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTechnology, innovation, entrepreneurship, they\u2019re at the heart of that,\u201d Blinken added. \u201cThis is how we are going to retool economies for the future. This is how we\u2019re going to modernize militaries as necessary. This is, through technology, how we are quite literally reshaping people\u2019s lives. And so it goes fundamentally to our national strength, but it also goes to a positive vision for the future that can be attractive for the United States around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blinken pointed to the CHIPS and Science Act<\/a>\u2014which provided $52 billion to subsidize domestic semiconductor manufacturing and billions more in funding for the research and development of emerging technologies\u2014as a potentially seminal moment in U.S. engagement with international allies. He said that \u201cthe conversations that I\u2019m having with counterparts around the world have changed\u201d since that bill and other legislation, such as the Inflation Reduction Act, became law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere’s now this view that, \u2018wait a minute, maybe America is getting its act together and this is something we want to be a part of,\u2019\u201d Blinken said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shared from NexGov<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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