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Anonymous ID: 1efd4c March 12, 2019, 6:35 p.m. No.5650268   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0561 >>0672

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India-Pakistan Tensions Test China’s Relationships, Crisis Management Role.

 

The latest India-Pakistan crisis has put China in a difficult position, as it tries to balance its relationships with both countries, while helping to stave off a conflict and demonstrate its ability to manage and resolve crises. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke to leaders in both Pakistan and India last week, urging them to practice restraint and find a way to deescalate the situation. Despite Pakistan’s request for China to play a more active role, competing priorities constrained the degree to which Beijing could lead—highlighting a chronic challenge for Chinese diplomacy in South Asia. China’s decision to keep a low profile is likely deliberate and in keeping with longstanding practice, but it is inconsistent with Beijing’s aspirations to lead in Asian crisis diplomacy.

 

https://www.usip.org/publications/2019/03/india-pakistan-tensions-test-chinas-relationships-crisis-management-role

Anonymous ID: 1efd4c March 12, 2019, 6:37 p.m. No.5650324   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Is the Pentagon Truly Committed to the National Defense Strategy?

 

As Senate and House committees examine the Trump administration’s proposed defense budget for fiscal 2020 — it totales three-quarters of a trillion dollars — the first and most important question they should ask is: Does this budget decisively improve the U.S. posture for great-power competition with China and Russia?

 

https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2019/03/how-committed-pentagon-national-defense-strategy/155502/?oref=d-channeltop

Anonymous ID: 1efd4c March 12, 2019, 6:42 p.m. No.5650422   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0561 >>0672 >>0717

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More AI stuff..

 

Inside DARPA’s Ambitious ‘AI Next’ Program.

 

As federal agencies ramp up efforts to advance artificial intelligence under the White House’s national AI strategy, the Pentagon’s research shop is already working to push the tech to new limits.

 

Last year, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency kicked off the AI Next campaign, a $2 billion effort to build artificial intelligence tools capable of human-like communication and logical reasoning that far surpass the abilities of today’s most advanced tech. Included in the agency’s portfolio are efforts to automate the scientific process, create computers with common sense, study the tech implications of insect brains and link military systems to the human body.

 

Through the AI Exploration program, the agency is also supplying rapid bursts of funding for a myriad of high-risk, high-reward efforts to develop new AI applications.

 

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2019/03/inside-pentagons-big-plans-develop-trustworthy-artificial-intelligence/155427/?oref=d-channeltop

Anonymous ID: 1efd4c March 12, 2019, 6:45 p.m. No.5650488   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0561 >>0596 >>0672

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Counting Jobs in the Marijuana Industry.

 

With federal jobs figures for the state-legal marijuana trade in short supply, some independent groups are taking a crack at a count.

 

https://www.routefifty.com/management/2019/03/jobs-us-marijuana-industry-leafly-report-2019/155411/

Anonymous ID: 1efd4c March 12, 2019, 6:48 p.m. No.5650541   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0600

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China’s Cyber Prowess is Shaping How the Pentagon Buys.

 

China’s drastic expansion of military and technological capabilities over the last 15 years has America’s procurement leaders focusing on the cybersecurity of what they buy.

 

“Over the last roughly full decade to 15 years, [China has gone] from being a very minor military player to a major military player with over 300 ships,” Deputy Under Secretary for Acquisition and Sustainment Alan Shaffer told the American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council’s Acquisition Excellence Conference Tuesday.

 

https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2019/03/chinas-cyber-prowess-shaping-how-pentagon-buys/155489/