The U.S. government needs to bury the hatchet with Big Tech and harvest the innovation of firms such as Google, Apple, and Facebook so that the West can better compete with Beijing’s rapid technological advancements, according to a visiting Australian senator.
Australian Sen. James Paterson, of the centre-right Liberal Party and now-shadow minister for countering foreign interference, said the great power struggle in the 21st Century would be marked by “technological battlegrounds,” such as artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors, 5G, quantum computing, and green tech.
