Innovation in China’s defense technology base

Cheung, Tai Ming

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“…Secondly, espionage between nation states, aided both by benevolent (which does not necessarily mean well-advised) and malevolent actors, is rife (Rubenstein, 2014; Lindsay, 2017; Banks, 2016), leaving few secrets between powerful parties. Hence, a major state with access to LARs can very much count on other dominant powers having a comparable LAR technology (Mori, 2019; Cheung et al , 2017; Johnson, 2021). Any military confrontation between two or more such states would therefore not involve human soldiers at all.…”

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A case for “killer robots”: why in the long run martial AI may be good for peace

Arandjelović

2023

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Purpose The remarkable increase of sophistication of artificial intelligence in recent years has already led to its widespread use in martial applications, the potential of so-called “killer robots” ceasing to be a subject of fiction. The purpose of this paper is to re-examine the consequences of the availability of lethal autonomous robots (LARs) on global peace. Design/methodology/approach Virtually without exception, the aforementioned potential of LARs has generated fear, as evidenced by a mounting number of academic articles calling for the ban on their development and deployment. An analysis of the existing ethical objections to LARs is used as a vehicle for their critique and the advancement of an alternative. Findings The presented analysis shows the contemporary thought to be deficient in philosophical rigour, these deficiencies leading to a different view, one favourable to the development of LARs. Originality/value The emergent thesis is that LARs can in fact be a force for peace, leading to fewer and less deadly wars.

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A case for “killer robots”: why in the long run martial AI may be good for peace

Arandjelović

2023

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“…The problem, as Cheung notes, is that "the People's Liberation Army and defense industrial regulatory authorities are seeking to replace this outdated top-down administrative management model with a more competitive and indirect regulatory regime, but there are strong vested interests that do not want to see any major changes." 68 Nevertheless, in 2014 China instituted new laws lowering financial thresholds and bureaucratic red tape in the establishment of private businesses. China hoped to stimulate the employment of new college graduates, spur the slowing economy, and accelerate technological innovation.…”

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The changing dynamics of twenty-first-century space power / James Clay Moltz.

2019

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Many recent assessments of space power have posited a US decline and predicted a gloomy future in comparison to China and Russia. However, such analyses-based almost exclusively on state-run activitiespresent only part of the picture. In the twenty-first century, a new form of bottom-up, net-centric, commercially led space innovation is emerging that promises cheaper and more timely technological developments to those nations that can effectively tap into them, thus reshaping traditional definitions of space power. This study first sets a baseline by focusing on Cold War space power determinants, next analyzes recent changes among the three leading spacefaring nations, and then looks into the future, factoring in the expanded role of commercial space startups and military space alliances. The article concludes that new forms of networked space power could put the United States in a more favorable position than countries relying on state-controlled innovation and development. Traditional measures of space power have focused on the activities of a nation's military and civil space programs. This common emphasis comes from the Cold War when the United States and the Soviet Union created well-funded, government-run, and largely military-led (and sometimes secret) space programs to "show the flag," support their operational forces and intelligence needs, and prevent surprise nuclear attacks. Since

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“…This gives other states a strong incentive to pursue their own innovative efforts and to engage in state-sponsored economic espionage operations to acquire proprietary information and other trade secrets (e.g. Cheung, 2018; Knickmeier, 2020).…”

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Who spies on whom? Unravelling the puzzle of state-sponsored cyber economic espionage

Akoto

2024

Journal of Peace Research

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Traditional conceptions of state-sponsored cyber economic espionage suggest that countries with different product profiles should experience high levels of espionage between them. However, this is not what we observe empirically. Incidence of economic espionage tends to be prevalent between countries with similar product and manufacturing profiles. This suggests that we may be missing critical parts of what drives state-sponsored cyber economic espionage. To help unravel this puzzle, I develop a novel theoretical framework that proposes that because attackers seek to maximize the expected utility of stolen information, they target countries that possess similar productive capabilities as themselves. Consequently, countries with dissimilar product profiles should avoid targeting each other for espionage. I test this argument using data on states’ product complexities and cyber economic espionage for a global sample of countries in a dyadic analytical framework. The results robustly show that for any pair of countries, as the complexities of their products diverge, they become significantly less likely to aim espionage attempts at each other. This study thus contributes new insights to explain why cyber economic espionage appears restricted to only a small number of advanced economies. It also illustrates the utility of large-N dyadic approaches in studying state-sponsored cyber espionage.

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Innovation in China’s defense technology base

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A case for “killer robots”: why in the long run martial AI may be good for peace

A case for “killer robots”: why in the long run martial AI may be good for peace

The changing dynamics of twenty-first-century space power / James Clay Moltz.

Who spies on whom? Unravelling the puzzle of state-sponsored cyber economic espionage

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