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The TechCrunch Global Affairs Project started with a simple premise: that technology is increasingly intertwined with global affairs and that we ought to examine what that means for both. From…
It should come as no surprise that government bureaucracies move slowly. But that just makes this week’s launch of the State Department’s Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy (CDP) seem…
About 30 years ago, the political scientist Joseph Nye overturned convention when he suggested that states exert not just “hard” power — i.e., military might — but “soft” power as well.…
This is the first in a pair of articles comparing the impact of the U.S. and Chinese tech crackdowns. This piece considers the geopolitical consequences of each country’s respective approaches.
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Introducing the TechCrunch Global Affairs Project
Technology has never agreed with boundaries. Even the most detailed satellite snapshots of Earth show no borders. From the printing press to the airplane, the telephone to social media, technological progress has helped us transcend time and place. And when it hasn’t sent memes around the world, it has ignited…
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Is Washington prepared for a geopolitical ‘tech race’?
When Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan sat down with Chinese officials in Anchorage, Alaska for the first high-level bilateral summit of the new administration, it was not a typical diplomatic meeting. Instead of a polite but restrained diplomatic exchange, the two sides traded pointed…
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Marietje Schaake is ‘very concerned about the future of democracy’
“…Some of the worst aggressors or most powerful and intrusive companies are basically completely out of the spotlight.”
When news broke Friday morning that Britain is looking to propose an alliance of democracies to build a 5G alternative to Huawei, you might think that that was the worst thing…
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Startups are transforming global trade in the COVID-19 era
The global trade crisis is a setback, but also an opportunity for logistics startups to show the value of digital platforms in an analog industry.
We’ve spent so long asking tech to turn its attention to real-world problems. Let’s not complain when they do so now.
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How Huawei is dividing Western nations
The relationship between the United Kingdom and Australia is not usually a flashpoint in international relations. After all, the two allies share a common language, ancestry, and monarch. So what caused a dustup recently that saw a senior Australian parliamentarian rebuke the British foreign secretary, and for a group of…
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Silicon Valley Community Foundation challenges donors to address local problems
I’ve always thought and believed that you need the public sector and then you need the risk capital that taxpayer money shouldn’t be going to.
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‘A city where you can pilot almost anything and figure out if it’s going to work’
“We’ve been lucky that our government have really sent a message that technology companies are welcome here.”
Ebony Beckwith discusses how the nonprofit Salesforce Foundation’s status as an impact team that’s also a fully-integrated business unit sets it apart from other corporate philanthropy efforts.
In 2004, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife, Pam, set aside some of the wealth they acquired after the online marketplace went public and created Omidyar Network, a philanthropic…
Paul Brest didn’t set out to transform philanthropy. A constitutional law scholar who clerked for Supreme Court Justice John Harlan and is credited with coining the term “originalism,” Brest spent…
