'While the share of internationally co-authored scientific publications in OECD countries climbed from 2% in 1970 to 27% in 2023, this growth is now losing momentum'.

Important stats on an important topic.
www.oecd.org/en/blogs/202...

'Close to 70% of countries with research security initiatives have now developed targeted strategies or regulations, soft law and dedicated oversight mechanisms, with the latter making up 40% of policy instrument types.

'But despite its rapid expansion, Germany’s defence industry accounts for less than 2 per cent of all jobs in the country’s metal and electrical engineering industry and is too small to move the dial on a national level'.
archive.md/JtTr4

'In 2013, it [Trumpf] acquired Chinese machine tool maker JFY and is now selling cheaper JFY products in Europe to counter low-cost offers from Asian rivals.

'Due to falling capacity utilisation, exports and production, the capital goods sector is nearing “a tipping point” where companies “can no longer maintain current employment levels, even if [they] would like to”.

'Mr. Trump, who mistook political theater for strategy, lost ground against China not solely because he misjudged Mr. Xi but because he underestimated America’s dependence on the supply chains it no longer controls and the allies that he too often ignores'.
archive.md/A4X2l

'China also received a 10 percent tariff reduction for pledging to crack down on production of fentanyl precursors ... tariff rate closer to that of American allies and partners ...

'Beijing has resumed imports of U.S. soybeans — one of America’s major exports to China — but at lower volumes than before. China has postponed its new licensing regime on rare earths for a year ... already caused the Trump administration to suspend export restrictions ...

'Emboldened, China wielded rare earths again in October — and raised the stakes dramatically. Using the pretext of new U.S. export controls, Beijing responded with a sweeping licensing regime ...

The piece where the quotes are from
energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/renewab...

See the second half of my latest piece for comment on the Australian experience vis a vis building transmission infra to onboard more renewables sustainably.
atechnolegalupdate.substack.com/p/geoeconomi...

'To address these challenges, the CEA will revise transmission plans every six months to reflect real-time developments, and is working with the India Meteorological Department to improve localised weather forecasting for solar and wind generation ...'

'The mismatch between transmission readiness and renewable commissioning keeps grid absorption uncertain, resulting in some renewable projects lacking power purchase agreements, he added.

Huge shout-out to Cisco. Yes, this is partially meant to stave off vendor liability chat, but if they pull this off, more power to them as a major vendor.
blogs.cisco.com/news/doublin...

'Instead of waiting for a patch or scheduling emergency upgrades, we will be designing features to deploy targeted real-time shields that protect against specific vulnerabilities soon after they are identified'.

'In subsequent releases, features will be disabled by default or require additional steps to allow for configuration. Eventually, insecure options will be removed entirely.

'Simply put, we are making it incredibly obvious when our customers are configuring insecure features that introduce new and unnecessary risks into their networks. Initially, customers will receive increased security warnings that recommend discontinuing the use of any insecure features.

'Resilient Infrastructure is a Cisco effort to strengthen network security by increasing default protections, removing legacy insecure features, and introducing advanced security capabilities which reduce the attack surface and enable better detection and response.

'... adopts a procedure to limit previously granted authorizations of covered equipment to prohibit the continued importation and marketing of such equipment'.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...