Maaike Okano-Heijmans

@Clingendaelorg | #connectivity | EU-Asia | geopolitics of tech

[Maaike Okano-Heijmans @MaaikeOh]

What a privilege, to moderate this panel! Sustaibability and trade are not opposing objectives, they go hand in hand...say officials and companies incl Supernal and https://t.co/LxeH5XjA3B, active in ASEAN. Looking forward to more such inspiring stories!

[Clingendael Institute @Clingendaelorg]

#Happeningnow @MaaikeOh is moderating the high-level panel 'Sustainability vs Trade: Achieving Balance' at the 10th ASEAN-EU Business Summit

https://t.co/AApy2oVMCY

@EU_AseanBC #ASEANEUBiz

[Maaike Okano-Heijmans @MaaikeOh]

Following Japan and ASEAN, India now sealed a Connectivity Partnership with 🇪🇺

Key points:
🎯sustainable, rules-based, inclusive
🎯digital 1st
🎯financial
🎯developmental
🎯private sector
#connectivity

Striking:
#IndoPacific mentioned just once

↘️
https://t.co/W9a840eu2k

[Clingendael Institute @Clingendaelorg]

📑New report | The digital age poses new challenges for governments around the world

➡️To what extent can Taiwan be a partner for closer cooperation on digital matters to the 🇪🇺 & 🇳🇱

🔎Read https://t.co/sbrCk57qq8 by @BrigitteDekker_ @XiaoxueMartin @MaaikeOh

[Maaike Okano-Heijmans @MaaikeOh]

Hurray indeed!

Goes to show that 🇪🇺can act swiftly, if a sense of urgency is shared
(Ref. investment monitoring, 5G Toolbox)

These Conclusions come six months after the call for action by 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇳🇱++

Strategy to follow within the year

[Steven Everts @sbeverts]

Hurray, another step forward in the EU's engagement in and with the #IndoPacific at today's EU FM meeting.

A lot of EU foreign policy is the accretion of small steps. But put together they (can) amount to strategic change.

https://t.co/Ngq2BTzZ6R #eudiplomacy

[Maaike Okano-Heijmans @MaaikeOh]

Great effort to understand the complexities of working with 🇪🇺...thanks!

A crucial step to improving Transatlantic ties

In a next version, will you also weave in EU Member States?
That would illustrate the real challenge that officials face...

From a 2015 Clingendael Report:

[Peterson Institute @PIIE]

The relationship between some US & EU government bodies & global institutions is complicated.
While not comprehensive, we explain some of those relationships. #PIIECharts

Details & find a glossary here: https://t.co/K2jcQD1vWq

[Clingendael Institute @Clingendaelorg]

https://t.co/dGLDjekti4

[Maaike Okano-Heijmans @MaaikeOh]

Is the #IndoPacific only about the maritime domain?

We believe that the EU may have more to offer in the less discussed but equally contested high-tech & digital fields💡

Share your thoughts💬
in the debate on 22 April↘️

[Clingendael Institute @Clingendaelorg]

WEBINAR 22/4 Fostering digital connectivity in & with the #IndoPacific: Opportunities for the EU @eu_eeas @ThibKLNR @karthiknach @MaaikeOh @RVlahutin @ISASNus @NUSingapore @EU_Commission @HardemanHildeML
Register & 📺watch why #IndoPacific matters
➡️https://t.co/5N2NZtnnxM

[Clingendael Institute @Clingendaelorg]

Join the conversation on 'The semiconductor industry squeezed'

Speakers⬇️
Heleen Bakker @MinisterieEZK
John Lee @merics_eu
@mtdtl @i_montaigne
Anna-Lena Rhiem @Infineon
Joost van Hees @ASMLcompany
@BrigitteDekker_
@MaaikeOh

📺More info & livestream https://t.co/3OKUutZsMi

[Maaike Okano-Heijmans @MaaikeOh]

“our (...) relationship with China, will be competitive where it should be, collaborative where it can be, and adversarial where it must be.”

EU official explaining 2019 Strategic Outlook?

No...it's US Treasury Sec Yellen😮
@🇪🇺🇺🇲dealing w/🇨🇳

https://t.co/xCS4cF2gPS via @FT

[German Marshall Fund @gmfus]

Last week, @LindsayPGorman, @RPPortugalUE, @MaaikeOh, and @RebeccaArcesati discussed the prospects and threats posed to the EU by China's ascendance as a tech power.

Watch the event video + learn more about the EU's declaration on internet connectivity: https://t.co/fFL7BcWYsT

[Kolas Yotaka @Kolas_Yotaka]

Taiwanese are not anti-China, we just know them better. Now more countries are getting a taste. Truth is more valuable if it takes you a few years to find it.

[Maaike Okano-Heijmans @MaaikeOh]

In the making: MadeinAmerica2050?↘️
aka Endless Frontier Act

Would be welcome turning point in US policy: from playing mostly defensive to offensive
🏋investing in own strength

Amid escalating relations w/🇨🇳 can we pls add this to 🇺🇲🇪🇺cooperation agenda?
https://t.co/ZeAjYypS11

[Maaike Okano-Heijmans @MaaikeOh]

✅EU strategic outlook to the #IndoPacific in April
✅ EU-India Connectivity Partnership in May

Great diplomatic craftsmanship.
But what will EU+MS do different after that?
Action's what I-P really needs

Maritime?🤔yes, but few ships...
Digital&tech?🤝plenty untapped potential

[Josep Borrell Fontelles @JosepBorrellF]

It is time for the EU to set out its vision for the Indo-Pacific. Read my new blog post (1/4)
https://t.co/3bUpGpwU5C

[MERICS @merics_eu]

"Caught between Washington and Beijing, European #semiconductor companies are having to navigate between techno-libertarianism and digital authoritarianism," write @BrigitteDekker_ & Anna-Lena Riehm in their short analysis. They recommend a way forward: https://t.co/1a10camJgq

[Maaike Okano-Heijmans @MaaikeOh]

@BartHoogeveen @BrigitteDekker_ @Clingendaelorg Thanks for your great contribition to the report and now webinar, Bart!

Discussion tbc, for sure...looking forward👊

[Clingendael Institute @Clingendaelorg]

Join 1st conversation of new series 'Dealing with China on high-tech issues: 🇪🇺 🇺🇸 & 🇯🇵 Policies Towards 🇨🇳 Cooperation or Conflict on #tech & #data?'⬇️

https://t.co/hrykVsdFMZ

⌛Thurs 13:30 hrs

@MaaikeOh @DorinevanN @johnfseaman @KS_1013 @WLEQuaedvlieg

[Maaike Okano-Heijmans @MaaikeOh]

Interesting thought🤔
but more likely: EU(MS) trying to better understand 🇯🇵 approach to the #IndoPacific,
as they prepare a stance/document of their own

So, the real balancing act is yet to follow💡

[Céline Pajon @CelinePajon]

EU invites Japan's Motegi to explain 'free and open Indo-Pacific'.
Interesting "balancing act" after the CAI? ...

https://t.co/Xc7VFxcemj

[Mikko Huotari @m_huotari]

New @EuropeanChamber + @merics_eu report: "Decoupling - Severed Ties and Patchwork Globalisation": don't look for companies leaving - look for severing of ties in tech ecosystems & companies navigating patchwork globalization https://t.co/VTjyJfmlvk - thanks for the teamwork!

[Mikko Huotari @m_huotari]

https://t.co/XcZUIjzUPU

[Maaike Okano-Heijmans @MaaikeOh]

Thrilled to have your contribution in our report, Jim...next to that of seven other chapters from 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇫🇷🇦🇺🇮🇳🇯🇵

Valuable ideas for transatlantic cooperation and conflict...

as 🇨🇳diagnosis&prescription continue to differ⏬

[James A. Lewis @james_a_lewis]

New publication by Netherlands Institute of International Relations on "Dealing with China on high-tech issues" on the reorientation of EU policy for economic security, in the transatlantic context and with Japan, India and Australia.
https://t.co/66n9PRl0hU