Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue

About the news of IBM pulling some of their operations out of China, Krach Institute CEO Michelle Giuda tells CNBC's Becky Quick that many US companies are like "Trudy" stuck in a bad relationship, recognizing they're being mistreated in China, and finally opting out. (That’s not just good for business, but national security too.)

Our CEO Michelle Giuda writes in The National Interest that “CEOs who innovate and deploy trusted technologies and who prioritize working with trusted partners with shared values…will be the preferred partners in the new global economy. That’s good not only for business but also for the national interest.” Read her article “Winning the Tech Race: Why American CEOs Must Lead, Not Follow”

In this week's Tech Diplomacy Now newsletter, we delve into the Chinese government's implementation of its export controls regime, blocking the export of technology and commodities that China has control over. This has forced the United States and other democracies into an unfamiliar set of circumstances. Read more about this issue and all the top developments in tech diplomacy.

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Huawei has been mounting a media campaign to trumpet its remarkable revival after the Clean Network dealt a big blow to its profits (and trust). However, our Chairman Keith Krach and Advisory Council member Jon Pelson write in The Hill that the numbers tell a different story.

The CrowdStrike outage affected 8.5 million devices worldwide. Yigal Unna, former head of Israel's National Cyber Directorate and Krach Institute Advisory Council member, calls this a "wakeup call." He says that in the future a cyber attack of such magnitude can happen intentionally, and because we are so dependent on our supply chains, "our supply chains can be what kills us." Watch.

As “blue screens of death” triggered possibly the world’s largest cyber incident, it was just one more in a series of outages that reminds us of the fragility of our complex communications infrastructure. Read our Advisory Council member and the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change cyber expert Melanie G.’s article about the urgent need to rethink cyber resilience.

The Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue's leadership was instrumental in the design of the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act. We're thrilled by the U.S. Department of Commerce's announcement of nearly a billion-dollar grant + loan package to SK hynix's AI memory chip facility at Purdue University as part of the bill’s implementation. The award helps to further secure the critical semiconductor supply chain. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e-S3BNuX

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