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Summary: Russia has long struggled to overcome its inability to retain talent for homegrown innovation and R&D. As a result, Russiaâs global activism leans heavily on tried-and-true tactics.
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How will the Kremlin’s tool kit evolve as emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deepfake forgeries become more widespread?
Russia has long struggled to overcome the constraints imposed by the country’s chronic inability to retain talent in support of homegrown innovation and R&D. That reality may consign it to a follower role in the technological realm. Russia’s global activism continues to lean heavily on tried-and-true tactics and capabilities that are popping up more frequently in a variety of far-flung venues. The blatant and often sloppy nature of such efforts suggests the Russian leaders
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China and Russia have been working together on COVID-19 vaccine research as part of their declared Science and Technology Innovation Year.
But that joint effort is a byproduct of other collaborations that have raised eyebrows in Washington including on President Trump’s intelligence advisory board. To see two of your biggest adversaries all of a sudden cooperating, linking arms and working together, that s very concerning to us, says Kevin Hulbert.
Some national security experts fear an alliance could dull U.S. influence in negotiations and increase surveillance globally. That’s after the countries last month conducted their second joint air patrol over the Pacific and they’ve participated in numerous joint military exercises in recent years.