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International Relations
Prague’s Election Looms Large Over Central Europe’s Security Fate
2 October 2025
Modern semi-conductors, COVID-19 vaccines and the rise of artificial intelligence show the technological challenges ahead for Central Europe and the rest of the world in the absence of deepened cooperation. To keep authoritarian powers at bay, democracies should consider creating a new, proprietary technological alliance that goes beyond NATO and where the leadership of the United States as a technological power is indispensable.
It was clear even before the US presidential election. Whether Joe Biden becomes the American president or Donald Trump remains in office, the ongoing power conflict between the United States and China will not disappear.
The conflict determines and will influence the dynamics of global politics and the world economy for the next decade or so.
There are only two positions in this conflict
Some commentators already compare this relationship to the Cold War, but today’s conflict is revealing itself chiefly as a battle for the best brains and the latest technologies. Although this is not a fully comparable analogy, it does have a similarity with the confrontation between superpowers in the decades after the Second World War: every politician in the world who has the ambition to become a head of state or government has to take a position in this conflict.
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