Henry Farrell

The Brewing Transatlantic Tech War

How Silicon Valley Got Entangled in Geopolitics—and Lost

Technology companies such as Alphabet, Meta, and OpenAI need to wake up to an unpleasant reality. By getting close to U.S. President Donald Trump, they risk losing access to one of their biggest markets: Europe.

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Interview with economist Tyler Cowen on Weaponized Interdependence, Big Tech, and Playing with Ideas

October 23, 2019 Big Tech Conversations with Tyler podcast featured
Whether it’s China’s influence over the NBA, the US ban of Huawei, or the EU courts asserting that countries can force Facebook to take down content globally, Henry Farrell has played a key role articulating how global economic networks can enable state coercion. Tyler and Henry discuss these issues and more, including what a big ...
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The Folly of Decoupling From China – with Abraham Newman

June 3, 2020 Foreign Affairs (online) with Abraham Newman
On May 14, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to break the United States’ economic relationship with China. “There are many things we could do,” he told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo. “We could cut off the whole relationship. Now if you did, what would happen? You’d save $500 billion.” It was Trump’s most extreme anti-China ...
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