In Beijing and Washington, leaders signal growing tech arms race
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2025 3:21 am
Strategic Guidance for National Security
The White House on Wednesday released its interim national security strategic guidance, which was closely read for signs of how the administration will engage the world. It mentioned China and its metonyms more than 20 times — twice as many as any other foreign country — and warned of the Asian nation’s growing assertiveness.
“China is the only potential competitor capable of combining its economic, diplomatic, military and technological power to pose a sustainable challenge to a stable and open international system, ” the document says.
In a video message to coincide with the release, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken described the US relationship with China as the defining test of the century and said his country's approach would be " competitive when it must be, cooperative when it can be, and adversarial when it must be ."
The document, with a preamble signed by the US president, said that the afghanistan telegram number database world's leading powers " are rushing to develop and deploy new technologies, such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing, that could impact everything from the economic and military balance among nations to the future of work, wealth, and inequality within them ."
It said the United States must " reinvest in maintaining our scientific and technological edge and re-lead by working with our partners to create new rules and practices that will allow us to take advantage of the opportunities presented by technological advances ."
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The White House on Wednesday released its interim national security strategic guidance, which was closely read for signs of how the administration will engage the world. It mentioned China and its metonyms more than 20 times — twice as many as any other foreign country — and warned of the Asian nation’s growing assertiveness.
“China is the only potential competitor capable of combining its economic, diplomatic, military and technological power to pose a sustainable challenge to a stable and open international system, ” the document says.
In a video message to coincide with the release, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken described the US relationship with China as the defining test of the century and said his country's approach would be " competitive when it must be, cooperative when it can be, and adversarial when it must be ."
The document, with a preamble signed by the US president, said that the afghanistan telegram number database world's leading powers " are rushing to develop and deploy new technologies, such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing, that could impact everything from the economic and military balance among nations to the future of work, wealth, and inequality within them ."
It said the United States must " reinvest in maintaining our scientific and technological edge and re-lead by working with our partners to create new rules and practices that will allow us to take advantage of the opportunities presented by technological advances ."
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Separate report