Valentin Weber

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#AI, #China, #Technology

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The Shenzhen Effect: China’s Export of Authoritarianism and What to Do About It by @weberv.bsky.social

How is China exporting its digital technology, and what kind of impacts does this transfer of expertise and infrastructure have on human rights?

Excited to share this report on "China's Embodied AI" that William Hannas, Huey-Meei Chang, Daniel Chou and I co-authored for @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social

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China's AI cooperation infrastructure

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China Is Racing to Draw the World Into Its AI Sphere (Part I) China: Technosphere provides a biweekly deep-dive into China’s technological control at home and influence abroad.

China Is Racing to Draw the World Into Its #AI Sphere

#Guangxi, for its part, is becoming China's AI hub for ASEAN. This is China's first step in a wider global AI push. TikTok meanwhile appears tied to Qi An Xin, a firm with #PLA links.

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Lianyungang: China's Blueprint for an Alternative Global Security Architecture (Part II) China: Technosphere provides a biweekly deep-dive into China’s technological control at home and influence abroad.

Part II of my analysis on China’s Lianyungang Forum is out. It breaks down how the Forum’s Global Public Security Index pushes China’s security agenda, using biased rankings based on a survey by Dataway, a firm tied to UFWD work on Xinjiang/Tibet.

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China’s attribution strategy has changed; it’s time for us to catch up To effectively counter Chinese efforts, Western countries and their partners must adapt by expanding joint attribution, broadening global audiences, and pre-empting disinformation narratives.

Just as China’s approach to cyber operations has developed, so has its counter-attribution strategy. Western attribution strategies haven’t kept pace, argues @weberv.bsky.social in his latest for Binding Hook: bindinghook.com/chinas-attri...

„Sicherheit ist kein Zustand, sondern ein Prozess“, so Bundesminister der Verteidigung Boris Pistorius in seiner Videobotschaft anlässlich unserer Zentrumseröffnung. Sein Wunsch an das Zentrum ist es, „einen Raum für kritische & faktenfokussierte Debatten“ anzubieten.

Lianyungang: China's Blueprint for an Alternative Global Security Architecture (Part I) China: Technosphere provides a biweekly deep-dive into China’s technological control at home and influence abroad.

The Lianyungang Forum is #China's blueprint for an alternative global #security architecture. The Forum has been taking place since 2015 and gathers hundreds of #police and government officials from across the world in China. Here is my analysis of it 👇 chinatechnosphere.substack.com/p/lianyungan...

Connected Vehicle Cybersecurity: The EU Must Consider Non-technical Risk Factors Assessing the trustworthiness of the country of origin of battery management systems is especially important for overall system security.

In our new @dgap.org memo, Maria Pericàs Riera and I lay out what #Europe should do to mitigate the risks emanating from connected vehicles.

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You Might be Already Wearing Chinese Smart Prison Technology China: Technosphere provides a biweekly deep-dive into China’s technological control at home and influence abroad.

Soon you’ll watch horror movies and go to Halloween parties. But real horror is out there. Chinese “smart prisons” show tech control at its peak—and the same monitoring systems are spreading to elderly care and military sites worldwide. #Surveillance

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The American Origins of China's Smart Military Camps China: Technosphere provides a biweekly deep-dive into China’s technological control at home and influence abroad.

Few at IBM may have anticipated that introducing the concept of smart cities to China would eventually lead to the emergence of smart military camps (智慧军营). Yet, that is precisely what happened.

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„Die jüngsten Cyberangriffe auf 🇪🇺 Flughäfen sind eine erneute Mahnung: 🇩🇪 muss unabhängiger von 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇳 Technologie werden“, schreibt @weberv.bsky.social im Handelsblatt- Gastbeitrag. Er skizizziert darin vier Ansätze für mehr technologische Souveränität. 📰👇

The Chinese Communist Party is dreaming an authoritarian techno-dream that is a democrat’s nightmare: ever more fine-grained state control made possible by using AI networks to pry and spy everywhere. But human unpredictability remains a force the party-state cannot tame.

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My essay "China's AI-Powered Surveillance State" is out today in @jodemocracy.bsky.social.

#AI may boost CCP control, but human unpredictability remains its Achilles' heel.
Read it here (free until Oct 30): muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Issue #2 of China: Technosphere is out 🎯

Read the full post to find out what the #BRI Cybersecurity Strategy is about what China's motives are as well as how Anxinsec and Huawei cooperate to build a Silk Road Technology Ecosystem. 👇

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The Case for Berlin Supplying Arms to Taipei Taiwan is struggling with the effects of late and insufficient US weapons deliveries, which are making it more vulnerable. It would be in Germany’s interest to step in.

New: @aylinmatle.bsky.social & @weberv.bsky.social argue that it would be in Germany’s interests to supply arms to Taiwan, as it struggles with the effects of late and insufficient US deliveries.

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Our new article w @aylinmatle.bsky.social "The Case for Berlin Supplying Arms to Taipei" was published in the
@ipq.bsky.social. Taiwan is struggling with the effects of insufficient and late US #weapons deliveries. It would be in the interest of Germany to step in. ip-quarterly.com/en/case-berl...

Welcome to China: Technosphere This week: How China monitors its borders

📢 China: Technosphere Just Launched 📢

The first issue of my new biweekly Substack brief explores #China's border surveillance infrastructure that can detect #submarines as well as fleeing #dissidents. chinatechnosphere.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

Aktive Cyberabwehr: Von der Wirkung zur Toolbox Die neue Bundesregierung will in dieser Legislaturperiode den Grundstein für eine erweiterte aktive Cyberabwehr legen. Entscheidend bei diesem Prozess ist, zunächst die angestrebte Wirkung klar zu ben...

In ihrem Memo setzen sich unser Senior Research Fellow @weberv.bsky.social & Ferdinand Gehringer von der KAS mit der aktiven Cyberabwehr in 🇩🇪 auseinander. Sie empfehlen der Bundesregierung, eine Reaktionstoolbox zu entwickeln, die geeignete Maßnahmen bündelt und deren Chancen & Risiken aufzeigt.

China: Technosphere | Valentin Weber | Substack China: Technosphere provides a biweekly (or so) deep-dive into China's control at home and influence abroad. Click to read China: Technosphere, by Valentin Weber, a Substack publication. Launched 7 da...

🚨 Launching Sept 3

China:Technosphere, my new biweekly brief — built for those interested in understanding how China controls at home and influences abroad. At the intersection of national security and technology.🔔Subscribe now to get the first issue: chinatechnosphere.substack.com/welcome

A Lack of Action in UN Cyber Discussions Is Partly the Fault of the West In July, the UN’s Open-ended Working Group (OEWG) on cybersecurity successfully concluded five years of negotiations by agreeing on the Global Mechanism, a permanent body that will address issues of i...

My latest @dgap.org memo was published today.

Incation in #UN cyber discussions is primarily to blame on Russian behavior that obstructs progress, but it is also partly due to a #Western tendency to make broad statements in #plenary sessions. dgap.org/en/node/42456

The chair of the #UN #OEWG on cybersec circulated the final report for delegations to decide on today. Chances for consensus are better, but he might have made too little to accommodate concerns regarding the thin provisions on international law. This could derail the process in its final hours.

Yesterday night the chair of the #OEWG on international #cybersecurity circulated a revised draft of the final #report. The report has shrunk from 59 to 30 pages, increasing the chances of adoption. There are improvements but, the language potentially leading to a #treaty needs to be weakened.

It is the final week of UN #OEWG discussions on int #cybersecurity. Points of disagreement remain on new norms vs implementing existing ones and the shape of the future mechanism, which put a final consensus report in peril. It will require a great portion of diplomatic acumen to overcome them.

Chinas Privatunternehmen unter „Xiconomics“ Während chinesische Tech-Konzerne betonen, unabhängig zu agieren, hat der Parteistaat Mechanismen wie Parteizellen, „Golden Shares“ oder extralegale Druckmittel etabliert, die eine solche Unabhängigke...

„Der weitreichende Einfluss der Kommunistischen Partei Chinas auf 🇨🇳 Unternehmen ist in 🇩🇪 weitgehend unbekannt“, so Associate Fellow @kavocabo.bsky.social. Im Memo erläutert er, wie Parteizellen und Golden Shares die Wirtschaft kontrollieren & was 🇪🇺 tun sollte.