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(USA/East Asia) Biden recalibrates Trump’s approach to East Asia (East Asia Forum)

Paul Heer, Center for the National Interest President Joe Biden has much repair and restoration work to do in East Asia. Donald Trump seriously degraded...

(USA/China/RCEP) US–China competition after RCEP (East Asia Forum)

Yuhan Zhang, UC Berkeley In November 2020, 15 countries signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) amid a backdrop of deglobalisation and trade protectionism. While...

(China/Space) China’s commercial space sector shoots for the stars (East Asia Forum)

Brian Waidelich, CNA The past decade has witnessed explosive growth in the number of domestic companies involved in China’s ‘commercial space’ sector. By November 2020,...

(Japan) Challenges in boosting Japan’s agricultural exports (East Asia Forum)

Hironori Sasada, Hokkaido University The Suga administration recently submitted a bill to revise Japan’s Act on Special Measures to Facilitate Investment in Agricultural Corporations. The bill aims...

(Turkey) Turkey plans to deploy attack drones from its amphibious assault ship (Defense News)

Tayfun Ozberk The Turkish government hopes to transform its landing helicopter dock Anadolu into a carrier ship for attack drones, and has already begun tests...

(USA) The Air Force has its first F-15EX (Defense News)

Valerie Insinna The U.S. Air Force took delivery March 10 of the first F-15EX from Boeing and will soon begin testing the new jet, the service said...

(USA) DISA director favors outsourcing IT services to contractors (Defense News)

Andrew Eversden The new director of the Defense Information Systems Agency said Friday in his first public appearance that he’s a proponent of IT as a...

(USA) Cyber Command works to address criticism over how it integrates tools — challenges remain (Defense News)

Mark Pomerleau U.S. Cyber Command is working to instill more seamless integration of disparate cyber war-fighting systems. https://www.c4isrnet.com/cyber/2021/03/12/cyber-command-works-to-address-criticism-over-how-it-integrates-tools-challenges-remain/

(USA) Pentagon processes ‘antithetical’ to AI developement, former Google CEO warns (Defense News)

Joe Gould The Pentagon’s onerous acquisition pipeline is “antithetical to prioritizing” artificial intelligence and must change if the country hopes to stay ahead of China,...

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