Some have argued that the Biden administration ought to create an alliance of techno-democracies. I have been working on a paper with our colleague Tanvi Madan that argues that this approach could be problematic for a selection of reasons. It may mean that the alliance could only transfer at the pace of its slowest member. For instance, in relation to export controls, some members of a D-10 or T-12 could have little or no interest in certain applied sciences and could additionally be cautious of aggravating China in a means that would jeopardize other interests of theirs.
I suppose there are encouraging developments in technology that are permitting developed countries to ‘do extra with less’, and increasing incentives to take action. With pc technology, even folks engaged on their very own can produce professional-looking documents. But the company got here crashing down following media and regulatory investigations, which showed that …