Hinrich Foundation white paper: Cross-border data flows and the Western response to China's techno-industrial challenge
A brief excerpt from a Hinrich Foundation white paper discussing cross-border data flow policy challenges, paired with commentary from Robert Atkinson arguing that the West needs to get serious about techno-industrial policy to meet the China challenge, rather than clinging to free-market orthodoxy.
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For free-market advocates, this is the worst possible sin. 'We don't want to become like China. Even if the US is a hollowed-out economy, at least we will be free,' they might think.
If the China challenge is real, the West needs to get serious about its techno-industrial policy.
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