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Washington Wants the Dutch to Bend Over Semiconductor Sales to ChinaAccording to Martijn Rasser, program director and senior fellow for the Technology and Security program at the Center for A New American Security, “The primary purpose of Unde...
By Martijn Rasser
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San Francisco Considers Allowing Law Enforcement Robots to Use Lethal ForcePaul Scharre is author of the book Army Of None: Autonomous Weapons And The Future Of War. He helped create the U.S. policy for autonomous weapons used in war. Scharre notes t...
By Paul Scharre
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The Future of Artificial IntelligenceSociety understandably fears a “killer robot” scenario. Empowering technologies to make human-driven decisions creates unpredictability, raising complex ethical questions abou...
By Alexandra Seymour
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Israel Deploys Remote-Controlled Robotic Guns in West BankIn Al-Aroub, residents say the machines fire without warning. “It is very fast, even faster than the soldiers,” said Kamel Abu Hishesh, a 19-year-old student. He described alm...
By Paul Scharre
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Pentagon Blacklists Chinese Drone Maker DJI for PLA LinksExplain the policy relevance of the U.S. Department of Defense’s decision to blacklist Chinese drone maker DJI. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the broader U.S. nati...
By Alexandra Seymour
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US Tries to Enlist Allies in Assault on China’s Chip IndustryThe US commerce department and the Dutch government would not comment. Japanese trade minister Yasutoshi Nishimura recently said Tokyo was talking to the US about how to “resp...
By Martijn Rasser & Emily Kilcrease
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Biden’s New Cold War Against China Could Backfire“The question is: Can China begin to produce the machine tools that it needs to enable domestic fabrication?” said the economic historian Chris Miller, author of Chip War: The...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Press Release - CNAS Announces Members of Task Force on Biotechnology and American CompetitivenessWashington, November 9, 2022—The Center for a New American Security is pleased to announce the members of its Task Force on Biotechnology and American Competitiveness. The CNA...
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A Drone Made Out of Sticks? In the UAV Space, Anything Flies.The drone is a reminder that such devices can actually be pretty simple. “I think the biggest benefit of this design is that once key materials are available – a battery, a re...
By Samuel Bendett
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Tech Industry Squeezed by U.S.-China Rift: “The Music Is Going to Stop”The new round of efforts to slow China's access to semiconductor technology the U.S. announced last month went further than many people expected. And the Biden Administration ...
By Martijn Rasser
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Russian Videos Reveal New Details Of Its Loitering MunitionsBack in July we reported that Russia urgently needed more loitering munitions for battlefield use. While the larger Shahed-136 kamikaze drones supplied by Iran are mainly targ...
By Samuel Bendett
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China and the US Remain Locked in Mutually Assured Co-operationThe latest clampdown on China shows similar intent in the fields of supercomputing and artificial intelligence. “This is strangling with an intent to kill” China’s AI ambition...
By Martijn Rasser
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Not Even State Media Believes Kremlin Claims That a Russia-Only Internet Is Ready to GoA series of late 2019 tests caused slowdowns and service disruptions, reported Meduza, an independent Russia-language news site. Even CNews acknowledged that the results “were...
By Samuel Bendett
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CNAS Launches Task Force on Biotechnology and American CompetitivenessWashington, November 2, 2022—The Center for a New American Security is pleased to announce the launch of its Task Force on Biotechnology and American Competitiveness. The Task...
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Russian Forces Unprepared to Protect against Drones, Lack Adequate Command and Control, Panel SaysSamuel Bendett said recent sea drone and unmanned aerial system swarm attacks have the potential to seize “the show going forward.” He added that buying commercial drones – pa...
By Samuel Bendett
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The TikTok National Security ThreatOwned by the Beijing firm Bytedance, TikTok has been under a U.S. security review since 2020, and President Joe Biden on Sept. 15 ordered “additional national security factors...
By Hannah Kelley
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How Tsmc and US-China Tensions May Dictate Fate of Global EconomyThe effects of such a halt would be "economically devastating," says Martijn Rasser, a former senior intelligence officer at the CIA who is now a security and technology exper...
By Martijn Rasser
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Iranian Kamikaze Drones: An Economical Solution for Russia Instead of Cruise MissilesBut analysts speculate that the main reason for Russia using them now to attack cities like Kyiv is that the fighting has gone on for much longer than Russia or Putin ever ant...
By Samuel Bendett
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Hundreds of Russia’s Top Software Developers May Have Left the CountryBy the same token, the loss of so many tech workers could be a significant blow to Russia’s long-term prospects. “Their permanent departure from the Russian labour pool or fro...
By Samuel Bendett
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Biden Just Clobbered China’s Chip IndustrySemiconductors are among the most intricate tools that human beings have ever invented. They are also among the most expensive to make. The latest chips — the sort that power ...
By Martijn Rasser
