US Urged to Build Tech Partnership With Other Nations on China

The Biden administration should partner with democratic countries to combat China’s tech strategy, a bipartisan group of ex-national security officials wrote Tuesday. They urged Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan to consider provisions in the Democracy Technology Partnership Act from Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va.; Bob Menendez, D-N.J.; Michael Bennet, D-Colo.; John Cornyn, R-Texas; Marco Rubio, R-Fla.; Ben Sasse, R-Neb.; Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.; and Todd Young, R-Ind. “The bill offers an important idea: creating a diplomatic mechanism to execute a national security strategy, which places technology competition and international partnerships at its center,” the group wrote. Signers included: ex-Secretary of Defense Ash Carter; ex-Director of National Intelligence Jim Clapper; ex-Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig; ex-Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Michael Hayden; ex-National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley; former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy; and former Department of State Policy Planning Director Anne-Marie Slaughter.