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Jason Hsu

Jason Hsu

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Jason Hsu, a former legislator from Taiwan, is a fellow at Harvard Kennedy School.

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  1. Keeping Taiwan Online
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    Keeping Taiwan Online

    Sep 13, 2023 Jason Hsu & Richard Y.K. Chen urge the island’s authorities to develop indigenous capabilities in satellite communications and technologies.

  2. How America Should Support Taiwan
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    How America Should Support Taiwan

    Apr 12, 2023 Chang-Tai Hsieh & Jason Hsu explain how US efforts to on-shore semiconductor production are imperiling the island’s security.

  3. What the World’s Most Important Company Must Do
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    What the World’s Most Important Company Must Do

    Dec 15, 2022 Jason Hsu explains why TSMC must balance geographic diversification with the protection its chips provide for Taiwan.

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    AI Needs UN Oversight

    Peter G. Kirchschläger calls for the creation of a watchdog – similar to the IAEA – that employs a human rights-based approach.
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    The West Is Hastening Its Own Decline

    Brahma Chellaney argues that the unprecedented US and European sanctions against Russia are backfiring.
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    Canceling Palestine

    Slavoj Žižek

    Current debates about Israeli policy are rife with double standards, leading to absurd decisions like Germany’s recent cancellation of a pro-Palestinian gathering. By quashing legitimate speech and assembly, an Israel-aligned establishment risks inciting precisely the kind of anti-Semitism that it wants to prevent.

    worries that the double standards applied on Israel’s behalf will lead to an anti-Semitic backlash.
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    America’s Childcare Is Unfit for the Postmodern Age

    Bruce Ackerman urges US President Joe Biden to put universal preschool at the center of his re-election campaign.
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    History Already Tells Us the Future of AI

    Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson find policy lessons for the 2020s in the work of the early-nineteenth-century economist David Ricardo.
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    Trump and the Risk of a US Debt Default

    William L. Silber thinks the former president would be even more reckless if awarded another term this year.
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    Europe’s Red Tape Is Helping Russia

    Laurence Boone & Nicu Popescu propose a European Defense Production Act to help fast-track processes for public procurement and spending.
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    What to Look for in Trump’s First Trial

    Eric Posner

    The intricate legal issues and colorful characters in Donald Trump's criminal trials will undoubtedly keep the media and the viewing public enraptured for months to come. But when it comes to the 2024 election, all that really matters is how the defendant appears to a narrow sliver of undecided voters.

    points out that optics, more than the law or the facts, will be what matters most for the election.
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    AI Holds the Key to Resilient Cities

    Justina Nixon-Saintil surveys the technology's foreseeable applications in promoting urban sustainable development.

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