Dirk van der Kley

Yesterday @GPriyandita @B_Herscovitch and I published a @CarnegieEndow paper on how Huawei became Indonesia’s trusted cybersecurity partner. Rather than being seen as the problem. They have successfully positioned themselves as the solution. 1/6 carnegieendowment.org/2022/07/11/loc…

Biomanufacturing might possibly be the highest priority emerging tech in China right now. I came across a quiet directive to build a network of 20 manufacturing scale up facilities/platforms by 2027. Translation and analysis: dirkvanderkley.substack.com/p/china-aims-t…

U.S. drugmaker Pfizer said it would license an experimental cancer treatment from China's 3SBio Inc , paying $1.25 billion upfront and up to another $4.8 billion if developmental milestones are met. reuters.com/business/healt…

🎙️New podcast 📢 What are the biggest threats to food #security right now? How do global shocks affect #supplychains? @dvanderkley and @AlisonRBentley join @DavidMAndrews to discuss the risks and how we can respond to them. Listen👇 tinyurl.com/yzr96ts2

🎙️New podcast 📢 How global shocks, supply chains, and innovation impact food security @AlisonRBentley & @dvanderkley join @DavidMAndrews to discuss #food security, emerging threats, and the role of research and #innovation in #sustainability. Listen👇 tinyurl.com/yzr96ts2

I have been frustrated by passive nature of Australia's response to Trump. We can't do much about tariffs. But we should use Trump's destruction of the US S&T ecosystem to boost Aus. The U.S. insists on self-destruction. Australia should fill its boots open.substack.com/pub/dirkvander…

3. We can boost funding scale-up infrastructure. The biggest gap in our tech systems. It would only cost hundred of millions of $ a year. Finally, a one-off Trump-boost to our research funding to bring top-level scientists through the door.

2. We can extradite tradies and technicians in our skilled visa system. They are already on the list.

China is much better prepared for Trump's economic warfare this time. As Beijing puts tariffs on a wide range of US food imports - I recently wrote that China has got its food security in order. It does not need US food any more . dirkvanderkley.substack.com/p/chinas-quest…

What is priority no 1. in China? As always, this year's document no. 1 focuses on food security. Over the last decade, China has really got its act together on food security. Yet, there remains one huge vulnerability: foreign pig food. dirkvanderkley.substack.com/p/chinas-quest…

Over 2023-2024, I worked with @dvanderkley, @saurabhtodi, and others to identify useful frameworks that can inform the deployment of SynBio in the Indo-Pacific. In this perspective article, Bhaskari and I contextualise the problem and outline the proposed approaches.

March is the 30-year anniversary of the Tokyo Subway Sarin Incident, a series of attacks that killed 13 people and injured 5,800. How much damage could they have done with AI? A LOT. Here is our team's explainer: open.substack.com/pub/dirkvander…

Bio-decoupling is leading to a shortage of imported drugs in China. The PRC has driven prices down so much on generic drugs that patients now worry about quality. nytimes.com/2025/01/25/bus…

China is getting on top of its food vulnerability. Everyone talks about China being the world’s largest food importer, but It agricultural imports have started to decline. And most of those imports are pig feed. China has plans for that too. substack.com/home/post/p-15…

@saurabhtodi Yeah. Probably. Can be both a msg and limit manufacturing. The evidence is all circumstantial though. I wonder if the PRC government would consider going beyond Foxconn. Much - perhaps most - of India’s manufacturing equipment comes from China.

@dvanderkley This seems to be the latter.

Foxconn stops sending equipment and PRC experts iPhone factories in India Indian suspicion is this is driven by the PRC govt. Wonder if this is msg to Indian govt or a long term decision to not help India's manufacturing? (or something else) restofworld.org/2025/china-fox…