How to win the technology race with China | Anja Manuel | TEDxPaloAlto
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Anja Manuel |
TEDxPaloAlto
• May 2019
It’s time we acknowledge that China systematically extracts the most advanced technology from the West. It does so legally, by mining open source databases, investing in our most advanced companies, and illegally, through cybertheft and spying. How we choose to react will define our future and that of the world. Instead of closing our own system, we can and must compete, and in some cases, even cooperate. We need a new era of public-private collaboration that unites American society and our allies behind a common goal of global technological progress. This talk will show us how.
Anja Manuel is a co-founder and partner with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley and former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates at RiceHadleyGates LLC, a strategic consulting firm that helps US companies navigate international markets.
A former diplomat and advisor on emerging markets, Manuel is also the author of the critically acclaimed "This Brave New World: India, China and the United States," published by Simon and Schuster in 2016. She is a frequent commentator on foreign policy and technology, appearing on TV and radio stations such as MSNBC, Fox Business, BBC, Charlie Rose and NPR, as well as a contributor to publications that include The New York Times, Fortune, The Atlantic and Newsweek. From 2005 to 2007, Manuel served as an official at the US Department of State, responsible for South Asia Policy. Earlier in her career, Manuel was an attorney working on international and Supreme Court cases, and an investment banker at Salomon Brothers in London.
Manuel serves on several corporate and non-profit boards, including Overseas Shipping Group, Inc. (NYSE listed), Ripple Labs Inc., a leading blockchain payments company, and advisory boards of Flexport Inc., Synapse Inc., Center for a New American Security, the American Ditchley Foundation, Governor Brown's California Export Council, and National Committee on US-China Relations. She serves as a Senior Advisor to the Harvard Technology and Public Purpose Project led by former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, and is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group and the Council on Foreign Relations.
A graduate of Harvard Law School and Stanford University, Manuel lectures in the International Policy Studies Program at Stanford University.
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