Reconstruction

Over at 1945 I talk through some of the results and implications of the Ukraine Reconstruction Conference:

Ukraine also faces a global technology environment that is rapidly changing. Globalization of knowledge isn’t over, exactly, but the West is increasingly united in the idea that barriers to the diffusion of technology and knowledge are a sensible policy idea.

Export controls, investment restrictions, supply chain reforms, and intellectual property law are increasingly becoming tools for excluding China and Russia from the world’s most advanced science and technology. The walls are going up around the world, and it is imperative that Ukraine is on the right side.

This is a bigger deal than the number of square kilometers of territory that the Ukrainian armed forces can retake from Russia.