What a privilege, to moderate this panel! Sustaibability and trade are not opposing objectives, they go hand in hand...say officials and companies incl Supernal and Booking.com, active in ASEAN. Looking forward to more such inspiring stories!

Following Japan and ASEAN, India now sealed a Connectivity Partnership with 🇪🇺

Key points:
🎯sustainable, rules-based, inclusive
🎯digital 1st
🎯financial
🎯developmental
🎯private sector
#connectivity

Striking:
#IndoPacific mentioned just once

↘️
eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/h…

📑New report | The digital age poses new challenges for governments around the world

➡️To what extent can Taiwan be a partner for closer cooperation on digital matters to the 🇪🇺 & 🇳🇱

🔎Read clingendael.org/publication/eu… by Brigitte Dekker Xiaoxue Martin Maaike Okano-Heijmans

Hurray indeed!

Goes to show that 🇪🇺can act swiftly, if a sense of urgency is shared
(Ref. investment monitoring, 5G Toolbox)

These Conclusions come six months after the call for action by 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇳🇱++

Strategy to follow within the year

Great effort to understand the complexities of working with 🇪🇺...thanks!

A crucial step to improving Transatlantic ties

In a next version, will you also weave in EU Member States?
That would illustrate the real challenge that officials face...

From a 2015 Clingendael Report:

youtube.com/watch?v=oKrVVk…

Is the #IndoPacific only about the maritime domain?

We believe that the EU may have more to offer in the less discussed but equally contested high-tech & digital fields💡

Share your thoughts💬
in the debate on 22 April↘️

Join the conversation on 'The semiconductor industry squeezed'

Speakers⬇️
Heleen Bakker Ministerie van Economische Zaken en Klimaat
John Lee MERICS
Mathieu Duchâtel Institut Montaigne
Anna-Lena Rhiem Infineon
Joost van Hees ASML
Brigitte Dekker
Maaike Okano-Heijmans

📺More info & livestream clingendael.org/event/webinar-…

“our (...) relationship with China, will be competitive where it should be, collaborative where it can be, and adversarial where it must be.”

EU official explaining 2019 Strategic Outlook?

No...it's US Treasury Sec Yellen😮
@🇪🇺🇺🇲dealing w/🇨🇳

on.ft.com/3wvK5hx via Financial Times

Last week, Lindsay P. Gorman, Portugal na UE 🇵🇹🇪🇺, Maaike Okano-Heijmans, and Rebecca Arcesati discussed the prospects and threats posed to the EU by China's ascendance as a tech power.

Watch the event video + learn more about the EU's declaration on internet connectivity: youtu.be/iPCKZQ8p7uM

Taiwanese are not anti-China, we just know them better. Now more countries are getting a taste. Truth is more valuable if it takes you a few years to find it.

In the making: MadeinAmerica2050?↘️
aka Endless Frontier Act

Would be welcome turning point in US policy: from playing mostly defensive to offensive
🏋investing in own strength

Amid escalating relations w/🇨🇳 can we pls add this to 🇺🇲🇪🇺cooperation agenda?
asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Inter…

✅EU strategic outlook to the #IndoPacific in April
✅ EU-India Connectivity Partnership in May

Great diplomatic craftsmanship.
But what will EU+MS do different after that?
Action's what I-P really needs

Maritime?🤔yes, but few ships...
Digital&tech?🤝plenty untapped potential

'Caught between Washington and Beijing, European #semiconductor companies are having to navigate between techno-libertarianism and digital authoritarianism,' write Brigitte Dekker & Anna-Lena Riehm in their short analysis. They recommend a way forward: merics.org/en/short-analy…

Join 1st conversation of new series 'Dealing with China on high-tech issues: 🇪🇺 🇺🇸 & 🇯🇵 Policies Towards 🇨🇳 Cooperation or Conflict on #tech & #data ?'⬇️

clingendael.org/event/webinar-…

⌛Thurs 13:30 hrs

Maaike Okano-Heijmans Dorine van Norren John Seaman Kazuto Suzuki Winand Quaedvlieg

Interesting thought🤔
but more likely: EU(MS) trying to better understand 🇯🇵 approach to the #IndoPacific ,
as they prepare a stance/document of their own

So, the real balancing act is yet to follow💡

New European Chamber + MERICS report: 'Decoupling - Severed Ties and Patchwork Globalisation': don't look for companies leaving - look for severing of ties in tech ecosystems & companies navigating patchwork globalization bit.ly/3ibtoAZ - thanks for the teamwork!

trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/20…

Thrilled to have your contribution in our report, Jim...next to that of seven other chapters from 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇫🇷🇦🇺🇮🇳🇯🇵

Valuable ideas for transatlantic cooperation and conflict...

as 🇨🇳diagnosis&prescription continue to differ⏬

Nederlanders niet bang voor Chinese telefoon, wel beducht voor Chinese technologie in #5G -netwerk

Blijkt uit onze nieuwe #BuitenlandBarometer (survey>23K Nederlanders)

Lees AD.nl⬇️
ad.nl/tech/nederland…