Monday’s #MustRead List

Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week-

1. Xi’s Gambit: China Plans for a World Without American Technology (The New York Times)
2. Startup using Soviet-era technology to build satellite servicing vehicle (Space News)
3. Chinese Technology Stocks Have Fallen Harder Than U.S. Peers (The Wall Street Journal)
4. UNCTAD Technology and Innovation Report 2021 (UNCTAD)
5. Facebook’s botched Australia news ban hits health departments, charities and its own pages (The Guardian)
6. Technology adoption and competitiveness for sustainable industrial economy (Global Times)
7. Smartphones made us dumber, but good AI technology can fix that (The Print)
8. Technology has turned back the clock on productivity (The Financial Times)
9. The Struggle for Technology Sovereignty in Europe (Project Syndicate)
10. China’s jaded techies find a hero in Elon Musk (The Straits Times)

Some light reading – The Selected Works of Cicero