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The United States has spent two years supporting Ukraine in one ground war and seven months backing Israel in another, and it continues to prepare for the possibility of a third in Taiwan. But arguably its most persistent focus has been on a far longer-running, more perennial, borderless battle over cyberspace and the future of technology.The State Department unveiled its own piece of that ever-expanding policy priority this week with the release of its International Cyberspace and Digital Strategy, which lays out a doctrine of “digital solidarity” that emphasizes the role of technology in diplomacy and the need to build international coalitions to uphold an “open, inclusive, secure, and resilient” internet through “responsible state behavior” in cyberspace. The strategy document, unveiled on Monday, sits at the intersection of three hallmarks of the Biden administration’s first term: an escalating conflict with adversaries such as Russia and China that frequently plays out in the cyber realm; an emphasis on “minilateralism” by building international coalitions and partnerships among smaller, targeted groupings; and a determination to maintain the United States’ global technological primacy. “Today’s revolutions in technology are at the heart of our competition with geopolitical rivals,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said while announcing the strategy at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, which is Silicon Valley’s biggest annual gathering of cybersecurity professionals. “Our ability to design, to develop, to deploy technologies will determine our capacity to shape the tech future, and naturally, operating from a position of strength better positions us to set standards and advance norms around the world,” Blinken added. “But our advantage comes not just from our domestic strength. It comes from our solidarity with the majority of the world that shares our vision for a vibrant, open, and secure technological future, and from an unmatched network of allies and partners with whom we can work in common cause.” Speaking to reporters just minutes after that speech, Nathaniel Fick, the U.S. ambassador at large for cyberspace and digital policy, outlined the importance of those global partnerships in setting broader norms and collectively calling out contraventions by the likes of Russia and China. “It’s easy to pick on one kid at the playground. It’s harder to pick on 30 kids,” he said. “So building durable coalitions in these attributions matters.” https://lnkd.in/g6JxMzEG
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3moRichard Staynings As I see it, the problem is twofold: 1) policymakers (elected and appointed alike) are bought off by various corporate interests, and 2) most of them have zero knowledge of technology or science. Ignorance of science and technology is a bipartisan problem. "We are now confronted with the disheartening spectacle of lawyers attempting to draw up laws on the subject of atomic physics. They look to the past for precedents; there are no precedents -- and their own esoteric professional training does not require that they be exposed in any fashion to science or the methods of science," warned Robert Heinlein in 1946 in his amazing book, Take Back Your Government: https://www.booksamillion.com/p/Take-Back-Your-Government/Robert-A-Heinlein/9781612420615?id=9152763794098 Sadly, that part of Washington D.C. has not changed since 1946.