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Jan 13, 2021

Event recap | AI, China, and the global quest for digital sovereignty – Report launch

By GeoTech Center

In this episode of the GeoTech Hour, hosted January 13, 2021, we launch the report “Smart Partnerships amid Great Power Competition,” hold a conversation about AI, China, and the global quest for digital sovereignty, and gather experts to discuss regional specifics and the report authors’ alternative futures for global technology cooperation.

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GeoTech's Smart Partnerships report, image of a chessboard

In-Depth Research & Reports

Jan 12, 2021

Smart partnerships amid great power competition

By Mathew Burrows, Julian Mueller-Kaler

The report captures key takeaways from various roundtable conversations, identifies the challenges and opportunities that different regions of the world face when dealing with emerging technologies, and evaluates China’s role as a global citizen. In times of economic decoupling and rising geopolitical bipolarity, it highlights opportunities for smart partnerships, describes how data and AI applications can be harnessed for good, and develops scenarios on where an AI-powered world might be headed.

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GeoTech Cues

Jan 12, 2021

Cooperation in a bipolar world

By Mathew Burrows, Julian Mueller-Kaler

Taking into account China’s growing influence around the world, discussions often alluded to an uncomfortable truth: In order to avoid catastrophe, even rivals must cooperate, which is why participants, particularly at roundtables in Europe, were keen to identify a number of areas that could lower the tensions and help build trust among antagonistic stakeholders.

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Julian Mueller-Kaler was a resident fellow with the Atlantic Council’s GeoTech Center and a nonresident senior fellow with the Scowcroft Strategy Initiative in the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.

Before that, Mueller-Kaler worked for Mathew Burrows, former director of foresight at the Atlantic Council; was a consultant in the office of the German Executive Director at the World Bank Group; and graduated as a Fulbright-Schuman scholar from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He also serves as a nonresident fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) and is affiliated with the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) in Berlin where he writes about US politics and the transatlantic relationship. In addition to his MA from Georgetown University, Mueller-Kaler holds a BA in International Relations from Zeppelin University, a small liberal arts college on the shores of Lake Constance, Germany.