US-Japan-South Korea training fellowship opens amid tense tech race with China
- AI, quantum technology, biosecurity and space are on the agenda for selected mid-level officials from the three countries
Speaking on Monday at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies – one of the initiative’s hosts alongside the Seoul-based Chey Institute for Advanced Studies – US deputy secretary of state Kurt Campbell invoked the historic summit in opening remarks to the gathered fellows.
“Over a two and a half day period I had to pinch myself at how exciting it was to see bonds being created before my eyes, a potential for a new kind of relationship that would change the contours, not just of Asia but the world,” he said.
Campbell also emphasised the critical need for public officials to understand how technology works. “Technology is at the core of what each of our governments seek to do.
“Every week I’m in a meeting with senior people making decisions about technologies they neither understand [nor] really could identify. And so we don’t want that to be the case for your generation,” he said to the fellows.
