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Scott Tilley is a Senior Fellow at the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes the “Technical Power” column, focusing on the societal and national security implications of advanced technology in cybersecurity, space, and foreign relations.

He is an emeritus professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. Previously, he was with the University of California, Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and IBM. His research and teaching were in the areas of computer science, software & systems engineering, educational technology, the design of communication, and business information systems.

He is president and founder of the Center for Technology & Society, president and co-founder of Big Data Florida, past president of INCOSE Space Coast, and a Space Coast Writers’ Guild Fellow.

He has authored over 150 academic papers and has published 28 books (technical and non-technical), most recently Systems Analysis & Design (Cengage, 2020), SPACE (Anthology Alliance, 2019), and Technical Justice (CTS Press, 2019). He wrote the “Technology Today” column for FLORIDA TODAY from 2010 to 2018.

He is a popular public speaker, having delivered numerous keynote presentations and “Tech Talks” for a general audience. Recent examples include the role of big data in the space program, a four-part series on machine learning, and a four-part series on fake news.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Victoria (1995).

Contact him at stilley@cts.today.

US Wants to End Dependence on China Rare Earths: Treasury Secretary

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Categories: ASCF News Economic Security

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Source: https://www.theepochtimes.com/us-wants-to-end-dependence-on-china-rare-earths-treasury-secretary_4604581.html

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen testifies before a Senate Finance Commmittee hearing on President Biden's 2023 budget, on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 7, 2022. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)

SEOUL—The United States wants to end its “undue dependence” on rare earths, solar panels, and other key goods from China to prevent the regime in Beijing from cutting off supplies as it has done to other countries, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said.

Yellen, who arrived in Seoul late on July 18, told Reuters that she’s pushing for increased trade ties with South Korea and other trusted allies to improve the resilience of supply chains and avert possible manipulation by geopolitical rivals.

“Resilient supply chains mean a diversity of sources of supply and eliminating to the extent we can the possibility that geopolitical rivals will be able to manipulate us and threaten our security,” she said in an interview en route to Seoul.

Yellen will map out her concerns in a major policy address in Seoul on July 19 after touring the facilities of South Korean tech heavyweight LG Corp. during the final leg of an 11-day visit to the Indo–Pacific region.

According to excerpts of her remarks, Yellen will make a strong pitch for “friend-shoring” or diversifying U.S. supply chains to rely more on trusted trading partners, a move she said would also combat inflation and help counter the Chinese regime’s “unfair trade practices.”

Yellen said South Korea has “tremendous strengths in terms of resources, technology, abilities” and its companies, including LG, were already investing in the United States.

“They have substantial capacity to produce advanced semiconductors,” something particularly important given the United States’ “huge dependence” on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., she said.

It’s critical to reduce U.S. dependence on certain Chinese exports since Beijing had cut off supplies to countries such as Japan in the past, while applying pressure in other ways to Australia and Lithuania, a senior Treasury official said.

“They have used coercion to pressure a number of countries whose behavior they have disapproved of,” Yellen said. “We know that’s a reason we don’t want to be dependent on China.”

Despite her strong words, Yellen said the relationship with the Chinese regime was not “totally negative or escalating into tremendously hostile territory.”

“We have real concerns with respect to China and we’re pressing them, but I don’t want to convey a picture of purely escalating hostilities with China,” she said.

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