Nigel Cory
@nigelcory.bsky.social
🇦🇺🦘Director, Digital, Tech, & Trade Policy, Crowell Global Advisors. Non-resident fellow at the National Bureau of Asian Research. Fmr ITIF and DFAT. https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigelcory
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Nigel Cory
@nigelcory.bsky.social
· Jul 20
How Japan—and Other U.S. Allies—Can Work Around America
A plan to survive Trump’s trade war.
www.foreignaffairs.com
How Japan—and Other U.S. Allies—Can Work Around America A Plan to Survive Trump’s Trade War. By Tatsuya Terazawa, for Foreign Affairs:
Nigel Cory
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· Jul 19
Reaffirming Multilateralism: A Proposal for ASEAN Common Framework for Negotiating with the US
<p>“It's necessary to synchronize between ASEAN countries because all 10 …</p>
www.csis.or.id
While it might be tough, reflects core issue that countries want/need to have some level of understanding of what others may get: Reaffirming Multilateralism: A Proposal for ASEAN Common Framework for Negotiating with the US : By Yose Rizal Damuri CSIS Indonesia:
Nigel Cory
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· Jul 14
Navigate: Digital Risk Index 2025
This infographic charts the top risks for digital technology, as selected by global leaders.
iapp.org
The IAPP's Navigate Digital Risk Index 2025 charts the top risks for digital technology. Based on survey response from more than 600 global privacy, AI governance and digital responsibility leaders from industry, government, academia and civil society.
Nigel Cory
@nigelcory.bsky.social
· Jul 12
MIT Tech Review: "Inside India’s scramble for AI independence: Structural challenges and the nation’s many languages have made it tough to develop foundational AI models. But the government is keen not to be left behind." www-technologyreview-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.tech...
Nigel Cory
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· Jul 11
New RAND Report: Full Stack: China's Evolving Industrial Policy for AI. www.rand.org/pubs/perspec...
Nigel Cory
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· Jul 10
Crash (exploit) and burn: Securing the offensive cyber supply chain to counter China in cyberspace
If the United States wishes to compete in cyberspace, it must compete against China to secure its offensive cyber supply chain.
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"Crash (exploit) and burn: Securing the offensive cyber supply chain to counter China in cyberspace." New Atlantic Council report by Winnona DeSombre Bernsen.
Nigel Cory
@nigelcory.bsky.social
· Jul 10
Interesting new report: "ASEAN DEFA: Promoting Interoperable Payments in Southeast Asia through the ASEAN Digital Economy Framework Agreement." Payments play a critical role in the digital economy, yet cross-border payments remains costly and complicated. www.nextradegroupllc.com/interoperabl...
Nigel Cory
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· Jul 9
New OECD post: Unlocking productivity with generative AI: evidence from experimental studies. www.oecd.org/en/blogs/202...
Nigel Cory
@nigelcory.bsky.social
· Jul 9
"Seeking Deeper: Assessing China’s AI Security Ecosystem
Research Report." AI security gets much less attention than AI safety, at least recently. Interesting reporting into how it is addressed and debated in China. cetas.turing.ac.uk/publications...
Research Report." AI security gets much less attention than AI safety, at least recently. Interesting reporting into how it is addressed and debated in China. cetas.turing.ac.uk/publications...
Nigel Cory
@nigelcory.bsky.social
· Jul 9
FDA Targets Gene Editing Clinical Trials in China and other “Hostile Countries”
In a somewhat ambiguous press release on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a halt and “immediate review” of new clinical trials where American patients’ cells…
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FDA Targets Gene Editing Clinical Trials in China and other “Hostile Countries.” Crowell colleagues on growing scrutiny of data flows to China. FDA database shows less than a dozen trials with sites in China that explicitly mention gene editing/therapies/engineering.
Nigel Cory
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· Jun 30
How 90 Days of Accelerated Trade Alliances Reshaped Southeast Asia
The U.S. government’s “reciprocal tariffs” have prompted a rapid overhaul of trade blocs in the Asia-Pacific, especially in Southeast Asia.
thediplomat.com
My colleague Akanksha Sinha in @thediplomat.com: How 90 Days of Accelerated Trade Alliances Reshaped Southeast Asia. SE Asia and a lot of the rest of the world continue to find their own way ahead on trade policy, separate, but obviously related, to US trade talks. thediplomat.com/2025/06/how-...
Nigel Cory
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· Jun 20
What’s at stake for ASEAN’s DEFA? | White Paper | Hinrich Foundation
ASEAN’s DEFA can accelerate Southeast Asia’s positive digital trade trends. But persistent regulatory fragmentation, trade barriers, and lack of interoperability stand in the way.
www.hinrichfoundation.com
What’s at stake for ASEAN’s Digital Economy Framework Agreement? Kati Suominen for the Hinrich Foundation - www.hinrichfoundation.com/research/wp/...
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@nigelcory.bsky.social and Amb. Robert Holleyman argue that the Korean Fair Trade Commission’s approach to competition policy enforcement creates nontariff barriers that the United States should seek to address in its ongoing #trade negotiations with #SouthKorea. nbr.org/publication/...
Nigel Cory
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· Jun 11
Trump Administration Cyber Executive Order Revises Prior Administrations’ Requirements
On June 6, 2025 President Trump signed an Executive Order, Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity and Amending Executive Order 13694 and Executive Order 14144 (the “Trump…
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Trump Administration Cyber Executive Order Revises Prior Administrations’ Requirements www.crowell.com/en/insights/...
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Alan Beattie
@alanbeattie.bsky.social
· Jan 9
Trump has limited powers to fight an economic cold war
[FREE TO READ] The new president is not the man to shore up the US ‘economic security state’
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My Trade Secrets today.
Joe Biden tried hard, despite competing priorities, to create an "economic security state" akin to the post-WW2 national security state. It's a bit ramshackle and uneven, but at least it's there. Donald Trump is, let's say, unlikely to improve it.
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Joe Biden tried hard, despite competing priorities, to create an "economic security state" akin to the post-WW2 national security state. It's a bit ramshackle and uneven, but at least it's there. Donald Trump is, let's say, unlikely to improve it.
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Alan Beattie
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· Jan 6
The day friendshoring died
[FREE TO READ] Joe Biden blocking Nippon Steel’s bid for US Steel is a sad end for an unloved idea
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Today’s Trade Secrets: the day friendshoring died.
It’s not even that the Biden administration sold out its allies to help the US steel industry. It’s that it’s not going to help the steel industry either.
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It’s not even that the Biden administration sold out its allies to help the US steel industry. It’s that it’s not going to help the steel industry either.
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Nigel Cory
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· Dec 31
EAC readies to accelerate regional digital integration with cross-border data flow framework
The East African Community (EAC) is a regional intergovernmental organisation of eight (8) Partner States, comprising the Republic of Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Kenya, Republic...
www.eac.int
The East African Community, with World Bank support, works to develop a regional framework for cross-border data flows. www.eac.int/press-releas...
Nigel Cory
@nigelcory.bsky.social
· Dec 30
Chat Bankman-Fried? An Exploration of LLM Alignment in Finance
Advances in large language models (LLMs) have renewed concerns about whether artificial intelligence shares human values-a challenge known as the alignment prob
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Interesting title/study from Bank of Italy officials: "Chat Bankman-Fried? An Exploration of LLM Alignment in Finance." Simulation-based testing can be informative for regulators seeking to ensure LLM safety, but it should be complemented by analysis of LLM mechanics papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Nigel Cory
@nigelcory.bsky.social
· Dec 30
It's quite novel given you can get it again and again and do combos with other viruses (as my wife found out). What an amazingly fun time with two young kids and no daycare in cold weather...
Nigel Cory
@nigelcory.bsky.social
· Dec 30
My wife and I, and extended family, tried the more aggressive option, norovirus. A little more dramatic.
Nigel Cory
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· Dec 30
AI & productivity. Interesting study carries out the first analysis of how the quality and type of human capital within firms influences the probability of adoption, using novel and uniquely comprehensive official data sources from France. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Nigel Cory
@nigelcory.bsky.social
· Dec 30
AI and India’s National Interest. By Hosuk Lee-Makiyama et al at the European Center for International Political Economy (ECIPE). ecipe.org/publications...
Nigel Cory
@nigelcory.bsky.social
· Dec 30
The Human Rights Costs of Data Localization Around the World | TechPolicy.Press
Four civil society experts weigh in on why data localization is becoming an increasingly common policy and what this means for people’s rights.
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The Human Rights Costs of Data Localization Around the World. Four civil society experts weigh in on why data localization is becoming an increasingly common policy and what this means for people’s rights. www.techpolicy.press/the-human-ri...
Nigel Cory
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· Dec 27
Uzbekistan’s data localization law hinders entry of Apple Pay and Google Pay
Apple and Google have declined to integrate their payment systems with Uzbekistan due to a controversial law requiring the physical storage of personal data within Uzbekistan. According to information...
kun.uz
Payment and financial data are among the most commonly targeted types of data for transfer restrictions - Uzbekistan’s data localization law hinders entry of Apple Pay and Google Pay. kun.uz/en/news/2024...
Nigel Cory
@nigelcory.bsky.social
· Dec 27
NIST’s International Cybersecurity and Privacy Engagement Update – New Translations
As the year comes to a close, NIST continues to engage with our international partners to strengthen cybersecurity, including sharing over ten new inte
www.nist.gov
NIST provides an end-of-year update on its International Cybersecurity & Privacy Engagement. A pretty boring, but valuable, part of building global tech governance. Includes new translations into French/German/Polish/Spanish of various NIST cybersecurity framework docs. www.nist.gov/blogs/cybers...
Nigel Cory
@nigelcory.bsky.social
· Dec 27
Carnegie Endowment launches new Africa Technology Policy Tracker (AfTech). The first continent-wide aggregate of digital economy laws, policies, & regs on digital infra, platforms, skills, & innovation. Developed with the African Telecommunications Union. carnegieendowment.org/features/afr...
Nigel Cory
@nigelcory.bsky.social
· Dec 24
Government outlines agreement between Reliance Retail and Shein, requires strict data localisation for India reentry
Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal has outlined to parliament that Shein's return to India will require strict data localisation in India and control of local operations by its India partner, Reliance Ret...
in.fashionnetwork.com
Interesting - Very China like move by India. Chinese fast fashion platform Shein's return to India will require strict data localization in India. Shein's Indian partner, Reliance Retail Ventures, will have full control of its India operations. in.fashionnetwork.com/news/Governm...
Nigel Cory
@nigelcory.bsky.social
· Dec 24
Useful stats/graphs - Large companies perform 89% of US AI R&D; 44-45% of firms with over 10k employees used AI. From: Artificial Intelligence in the Business Sector: R&D, Use, and Impact on Employees, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (2021 data). ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf2531...
Nigel Cory
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· Dec 20
"How Experts in China and the United Kingdom View AI Risks and Collaboration." From my former colleagues Daniel and Yanzi @datainnovation.org/@itif.org. datainnovation.org/2024/08/how-...
Nigel Cory
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· Dec 20
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Marks Progress Strengthening America’s Supply Chains | The White House
Upon taking office in 2021, President Biden and his Administration immediately got to work addressing the shocks that were roiling global supply chains
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Essentially an end-of-administration summary: Biden-Harris Administration Marks Progress Strengthening America’s Supply Chains - critical minerals, medical equipment, semis, supply chain analytics, IPEF, and more: www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...