Great meeting with André Pascal of the OECD and Quynh Nham of the Boston Global Forum.

Great meeting in Paris with Valerie Picard and Andrew Wilson of the International Chamber of Commerce along with Tuan Nguyen and Quynh Nham of the Boston Global Forum.

But it could also look to bolster its own industry, said Kennedy, who is now Director of the Wilson Center's Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition. "Given the limitations of purely defensive measures, it may also ramp up domestic AI investment, strengthen alliances, and refine policies to ensure it maintains leadership without unintentionally driving more nations toward China's AI ecosystem," he said.

Courtney Fingar and I contend that restrictions on exports to protect security must be paired with opening markets for our tech products to both retain global leadership and advance economic development.

A collaboration between the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung - Geneva and the Wilson Center's Wahba Institute on the margins of the WTO Public Forum.

Discussed how best to implement the country's new Digitization and Artifical Intelligence Plans.

Profesor Dr. Nguyen Xuan Thang, a member of Vietnam's Politburo and Chairman of the Central Theory Council (middle), Boston Global Forum CEO Tuan Nguyen (right) and Vietnam's Ambassador to the US Nguyen Quoc Dzung (left)

Interview of Representative Karen Makishima, Minister of Japan's new Digital Agency.

Learned a lot from my visit to Japan's JAXA Tsukuba Space Center. They are a great NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration -partner. Here inside model of Japanese Experiment Module “Kibo” of the International Space Station.

Kennedy said, “A sounder path for Vietnam is to develop its own manufacturing capabilities that rely on supply chains from a diversified group of nations” other than China.