The Center for International and Strategic Studies has released a report, Asia Projections: Key Trends for 2022

Technology strategy

According to the Center for International and Strategic Studies (CSIS) on February 7, CSIS released the "Asia Forecast: Key Trends in 2022" report, which makes nine predictions for key issues in the political, security, economic and trade fields around Asia's development. First, south Korean presidential election will have an impact on Asia's geopolitics; second, Japan-South Korea relations will improve; third, Russia's invasion of Ukraine will shake the confidence of Asian leaders in the United States; fourth, China is unlikely to use military force in the Taiwan region this year; fifth, security cooperation between the U.S.-Japan-Australia-India Quad alliance and the U.S.-Britain-Australia Security Alliance (AUKUS) will advance in 2022; and sixth, the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China will make China more radical Seventh, there will be more export controls and technology decoupling between China and the United States in 2022; the eighth is that Asia will remain cautious about Biden's Proposed Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF); and the ninth is that China's accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTTP) will slow down.

The Australian think tank released the "Big Data and National Security" report

According to the news of National Defense Science and Technology News on February 11, the Australian Lowy Institute for International Policy Recently released the report "Big Data and National Security: A Guide for Australian Policymakers". The report points out that big data drives economic and social innovation development, but it will also exert influence on existing institutions at the individual and national levels, posing a new threat to national security. Big data has three characteristics, such as super digital information, super digital connection, and technology ubiquity, and the operational advantages and security challenges that may be brought include: greatly improving situational awareness and transforming information advantages into military advantages; making target positioning, surveillance and suppression possible; and promoting information on political influence and intervention.

Information

THE UNITED STATES CISA WARNS OF THE CRITICAL VULNERABILITY OF THE SAP APPLICATION FOR ICMAD VULNERABILITY

According to the news of the E Security Public Account on February 11, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) reported a serious security vulnerability called ICMAD (Internet Communication Manager Advanced Desync), and said that the vulnerability affected the use of SAP business applications. The ICMAD vulnerability is a Memory Pipe (MPI) desynchronization vulnerability. CISA said the vulnerability could expose organizations to a wide range of impacts, including data theft, financial fraud, disruption of mission-critical business processes, ransomware attacks, and the suspension of all operational operations. On February 8, 2022, SAP released a security update to address the vulnerability's impact on multiple products.

AMD announced that it has received all necessary approvals to acquire Xilinx and expects to close the transaction around February 14

According to TechWeb's News on February 11, AMD said that its acquisition of Xilinx has obtained all necessary regulatory approvals. In addition to the regular transaction conditions, all conditions for the completion of the acquisition have been met, and the acquisition transaction is expected to be completed around February 14. Under the terms of the acquisition agreed between the two companies, shareholders holding Xilinx common stock will receive 1.7234 AMD ordinary shares per Xilinx common stock. At the price of AMD stock at the time of the acquisition, the transaction value was as high as $35 billion. Upon completion of the acquisition, AMD's original shareholders will hold 74 percent of the company's shares, with Xilinx shareholders holding the remaining 26 percent. After the acquisition, Su will continue to serve as CEO of AMD, and Xilinx President and CEO Victor Peng will join AMD as President, responsible for Xilinx's business and strategic growth planning.

The U.S. Treasury Secretary believes that the stablecoin business should be regulated on the same level as the banking business

According to the cnBeta network on February 9, Nellie Liang, the deputy secretary of the US Treasury department for domestic financial affairs, said that technology companies without banking licenses should not offer cryptocurrency stablecoins. Nelly Leung argues that companies that issue stablecoins should be subject to the same strict regulation as banking. Currently, the market capitalization of stablecoin assets has surged from about $5 billion in early 2020 to about $175 billion. Nellie Leung expects the White House to provide more details about the federal government's digital asset strategy within weeks.

The IMF believes that there is no universal model for central bank digital currencies

According to Reuters news on February 10, Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, believes that there is no universal model for the central bank digital currency (CBDC). The International Monetary Fund estimates that about 100 countries are currently studying CBDCs, some of which are already up and running or in the late stages of research. CBDCs may make it easier for people to access banking services and reduce the cost of capital flow. Since the CBDC system of each country considers the design of financial stability and privacy, the CBDC framework of each country will be different.

French privacy regulators have called Google Analytics a violation of the GDPR

According to TechCrunch on February 10, France's National Commission for Freedom of Information (CNIL) found through a data survey of an unnamed national website that Google Analytics violated the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It is understood that the site uses Google Analytics to track content and page visits. The CNIL said the tool did not comply with European regulations when using citizens' personal data and transferring it to the United States. The CNIL is not currently calling for a complete ban on Google Analytics, but recommends revising it in accordance with the guidelines.

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Chinese scientists have pioneered new ways to design proteins from scratch

According to Xinhua News on February 10, the team of Professor Liu Haiyan and Associate Professor Chen Quan of the University of Science and Technology of China adopted a data-driven strategy to open up a new protein design route from scratch. Theoretical calculations and experiments have proved that the design of proteins by this method can break through the limitation that only natural fragments can be spliced to produce new backbone structures, and significantly expand the structural diversity of de novo design proteins. The team released the high-resolution crystal structure of 9 protein molecules designed from scratch, of which 5 proteins have novel structures that are different from known natural proteins, realizing the original innovation of key core technologies in the frontier technology field of protein design, laying a solid foundation for the design of functional proteins such as industrial enzymes, biomaterials, and biomedical proteins. The results were published in the journal Nature.

Chinese scientists use multiple genome editing to create disease-resistant wheat

According to the news of phys network on February 9, the Qiu Jinlong research group of the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a new wheat mutant Tamlo-R32. The mutant is highly resistant to powdery mildew and does not exhibit any growth or yield defects. Plant diseases cause losses of up to 30 per cent of all crops produced globally each year, posing a serious threat to global food security. The researchers used traditional breeding methods to cross Tamlo-R32 mutants with excellent wheat varieties, successfully introduced disease resistance traits into excellent varieties, and used multiplex CRISPR genome editing technology to directly create corresponding genetic perturbations in high-quality wheat varieties, resulting in the successful creation of broad-spectrum powdery mildew resistant wheat within 2-3 months. This achievement highlights the potential of superimposed genetic changes and represents an important theoretical and technological breakthrough in the use of susceptible genes to cultivate disease-resistant plants.

The research team at Fudan University has developed a super-sensitive biosensor based on microelectromechanical systems that can detect viral RNA in 4 minutes

According to the news of translational medicine network on February 9, the research team of Fudan University has developed a super sensitive biosensor based on microelectromechanical system, which can detect the RNA of the virus within 4 minutes, which is much less time-consuming than the PCR laboratory detection method. The researchers integrated electromechanical biosensors used to detect the coronavirus into a portable device to test 33 samples infected with the coronavirus in Shanghai. It turned out that the test results of the device matched the results of the PCR test perfectly. This method is fast, operable, high sensitivity, easy to carry, can be applied anywhere. In addition to detecting COVID-19, the device can make ultra-precise diagnoses of other diseases in minutes without the need for targeted purification, amplification, or culture, which typically takes hours or days. The research was published in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering.

Researchers in New Zealand have developed a "bionic" pacemaker that reverses heart failure

According to the news of Biocom on February 10, researchers at the Heart Research Center of the University of Auckland in New Zealand have developed a revolutionary "bionic" pacemaker that can restore the heart's natural irregular beating. Similar to a bionic device, the pacemaker understands signals from the body, triggers a steady beat of the heart, and can speed up the rhythm of the heart during human inhalation, reduce the rhythm of the heart during exhalation, increase cardiac output by 20%, or reverse heart failure. Following successful animal trials, the pacemaker will be tested this year in heart patients in New Zealand. The study was funded by the New Zealand Health Research Council. The research was published in the journal Basic Research in Cardiology.

The American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology advises the Pandemic Prevention Act

According to the asBMB official website on February 10, the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) provided a feedback to the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension Committee, recommending that the Pandemic Prevention Act should add three elements: one is to establish a health advanced research project agency; the other is to strengthen the scientific, engineering, technology and mathematics teams to support research in the United States; and the third is to invest in the research infrastructure of federal agencies, minority service agencies and emerging research institutions. Strengthen talent training. The Pandemic Prevention Act aims to establish COVID-19 research and response teams; improve strategic coordination among U.S. health facilities; strengthen testing, drug and vaccine development, and medical supplies stockpiles; reform CDC policies to enhance accountability and leadership; and address issues that make it harder for at-risk populations to respond to public health emergencies.

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Japan has developed polymer separation membrane modules that can efficiently separate hydrogen

According to AIpatent news on February 10, Japan's Toray Corporation successfully developed a polymer separation membrane module, achieving 98% of the world's highest level of hydrogen purity. By using technology based on reverse osmosis (RO) membranes and introducing hydrophilic materials, the researchers developed separation membranes with highly controlled pore structures. Whereas conventional separation membranes required multiple filtrations to improve the purity of hydrogen transmission, the separation membrane only needs one separation to obtain high purity. In addition, in the process of making the components, the researchers optimally designed the flow path materials that are the main constituent components to reduce the flow resistance, thereby increasing the membrane area, improving the hydrogen permeability of individual components, and reducing the number of components required for the hydrogen purification process to less than 50%.

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Six warships of the Russian Navy will cross the zone into the Black Sea for exercises

According to the news of the National Defense Science and Technology Information Network on February 10, the Russian Ministry of Defense recently released information that a large landing ship (LLS) fleet of the Russian Navy began to pass through the Bosphorus and Dardanelle Straits, and will enter the Black Sea from the Mediterranean Sea to participate in the exercise. It is reported that the fleet has previously been replenished at naval logistics points along the Mediterranean coast. According to the 2022 training plan of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Russia will hold a series of naval exercises in the various fleet responsibility zones from January to February, covering the seas adjacent to Russian territory and the world's important combat areas, including the Mediterranean Sea, the North Sea, the Sea of Okhotsk, the northeast Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.

The U.S. Navy will award a contract for the development of a new Razorback unmanned underwater vehicle

According to the National Defense Science and Technology Information Network on February 11, McCeach, deputy manager of the U.S. Navy's unmanned offshore system program, said a few days ago that the U.S. Navy will award a contract for the development of a submarine torpedo tube-mounted recycled "Razor Whale" unmanned underwater vehicle in fiscal year 2022. It is reported that this type of unmanned underwater vehicle is an improved model, and the previous model was the dry shielding compartment deployment recovery type received by the US Navy last year, which is mainly used for battlefield environment perception tasks, navigation data collection and other tasks. According to previous reports, the United States is developing a new type of unmanned underwater vehicle, which will have both the surface deployment of the "king fish", the anti-mine function, and the underwater torpedo tube deployment and battlefield perception function of the "Razor Whale", but it does not have a dry deck shelter deployment configuration.

aviation

The U.S. Army acquires a new type of artificial intelligence small reconnaissance drone

According to Defense Science and Technology News on February 11, the U.S. Army awarded Skydio a five-year, $20.2 million annual drone procurement contract to deliver X2D drones for its short-range reconnaissance (SRR) program. The Short-Range Reconnaissance Program is designed to deploy a low-cost, rapidly deployable reconnaissance drone carried by a single soldier. X2D is a quadcopter drone, the total weight of the aircraft is about 1.4 kg. The fuselage is a foldable carbon fiber and magnesium alloy frame that can be deployed in 75 seconds, can be autonomously monitored, intelligently follow around target points, and provide real-time aerial reconnaissance.

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The UK successfully launched the 13th batch of 36 OneWeb satellites

According to the news of international space enthusiasts on February 11, the British OneWeb company successfully deployed the 13th batch of 36 OneWeb satellites. After the completion of the launch, the number of satellites in orbit in the OneWeb constellation reached 428. The company expects to complete the initial constellation deployment of a network of 648 satellites in 2022, which will provide satellite Internet services to regions above 50 degrees north latitude, including Alaska, Canada, Greenland, the Nordic region and the United Kingdom.

Materials

MIT develops new plant-derived composites

According to the news of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology website on February 10, MIT researchers have designed a composite material, mainly composed of cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) and some synthetic polymers mixed, of which organic crystals account for about 60%-90% of the material, which is currently the highest proportion of CNC composite materials. At the nanoscale, CNC is tougher and harder than Kevlar and can be processed into materials in large quantities, potentially becoming a way to make stronger, more sustainable natural plastics. The researchers mixed the synthetic polymer solution with commercially available CNC powder and determined the ratio of THE CNC and polymer that turned the solution into a gel, the consistency of which could be fed either through the nozzles of the 3D printer or poured into a mold for pouring. The use of CNC to manufacture composite materials under high loads has excellent mechanical properties and can replace some petroleum-based plastics in the future. The results were published in the journal Cellulose.

Advanced manufacturing

The U.S. plans to allocate nearly $5 billion to states over five years to improve electric vehicle charging networks

According to TechWeb news on February 11, the Biden administration launched a plan to allocate nearly $5 billion to states over five years to build thousands of electric vehicle charging facilities, as part of the $1 trillion infrastructure bill. Biden hopes that by 2030, 50 percent of all new cars sold will be electric or plug-in hybrids, and 500,000 new electric vehicle charging stations will be added. Under the plan, the U.S. government will allocate $615 million in 2022, but states must submit electric vehicle infrastructure deployment plans to the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation, and the federal highway administration will publish a qualified list. In its guidance, the U.S. government said states should prioritize investing in charging stations along interstates and set up public restrooms, lighting, and sheltered seating areas in areas of use or in immediate vicinity, such as tourist centers, food stores, convenience stores, etc.

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