My latest DGAP memo was published today. Incation is primarily to blame on 🇷🇺behavior that obstructs progress, but it is also partly due to a #Western tendency to make broad statements in #plenary sessions dgap.org/en/node/42456

In ihrem Memo setzen sich Valentin Weber & Ferdinand Gehringer Adenauer-Stiftung mit der aktiven Cyberabwehr in 🇩🇪 auseinander. Sie empfehlen der Bundesregierung, eine Reaktionstoolbox zu entwickeln, die geeignete Maßnahmen bündelt und deren Chancen & Risiken aufzeigt. dgap.org/de/forschung/p…

📢China: Technosphere Just Launched 📢 The first issue of this new biweekly Substack brief explores #China's border surveillance infrastructure that can detect #submarines as well as fleeing #dissidents. chinatechnosphere.substack.com/p/welcome-to-c…

Our new article with Aylin Matlé "The Case for Berlin Supplying Arms to Taipei" was published in the lnternationale Politik Quarterly today.🇹🇼is struggling with the effects of insufficient and late US #weapons deliveries. It would be in 🇩🇪's interest to step in. ip-quarterly.com/en/case-berlin…

New: Aylin Matlé & Valentin Weber argue that it would be in Germany’s interests to supply arms to Taiwan, as it struggles with the effects of late and insufficient US deliveries. ip-quarterly.com/en/case-berlin…

Issue #2 of China: Technosphere is out 🎯 Read the full post to find out what the #BRI Cybersecurity Strategy is about what China's motives are as well as how Anxinsec and Huawei cooperate to build a Silk Road Technology Ecosystem. 👇substack.com/home/post/p-17…

🚨 China’s police drones no longer just watch — they act. They: 🔊 Shout warnings via megaphones 💡 Flash lights to disperse crowds 💨 Fire tear gas + deploy sonic weapons 📡 Alert police #Drones #AI #Surveillance #ChinaTech #Policing open.substack.com/pub/chinatechn…

My essay "China's AI-Powered Surveillance State" is out today in Journal of Democracy. #AI may boost CCP control, but human unpredictability remains its Achilles' heel. Read it here 👇🏻

The Chinese Communist Party is dreaming an authoritarian techno-dream that is a democrat’s nightmare: ever more fine-grained state control made possible by using AI networks to pry and spy everywhere. But human unpredictability remains a force the party-state cannot tame.

“Regional approach to building a resilient cyber econsystem” panel moderated by Int’l Telecommunication Union’s Valentina Stadnic with⏭️Montenegro Ministry of Public Administration’s Dusan Polovic, Advisor Lulëzon Jagxhiu, Agency of Information Society’s Enis Ylli, DCAF HQ’s Natalija Radoja,

„Die jüngsten Cyberangriffe auf 🇪🇺 Flughäfen sind eine erneute Mahnung: 🇩🇪 muss unabhängiger von 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇳Technologie werden“, schreibt Valentin Weber im Handelsblatt- Gastbeitrag. Er skizizziert darin vier Ansätze für mehr technologische Souveränität. 📰👇 handelsblatt.com/meinung/gastbe…

Mein neu erschienenes Op-Ed im Handelsblatt 👇🏻 handelsblatt.com/meinung/gastbe…

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CHINA'S AI-POWERED SURVEILLANCE STATE In this fresh article, Valentin Weber (Valentin Weber) discusses the development of China's surveillance state and how the party is increasing its control over the people using AI. Some selected quotes: On the tactical level, AI is increasingly

The Forum is proud to congratulate María Corina Machado on her Nobel Peace prize for her fight for liberty in Venezuela 🇻🇪 On an episode of Power 3.0, Iria Puyosa & Valentin Weber discuss how autocratic tech provided by the PRC has stifled freedom and privacy in Venezuela. buff.ly/umA02Fg

Soon you’ll watch horror movies and go to Halloween parties. But real horror is out there. Chinese “smart prisons” show tech control at its peak—and the same monitoring systems are spreading to elderly care and military sites worldwide. #Surveillance chinatechnosphere.substack.com/p/you-might-be…