Are We Fighting A New Cold War For The Global South? Nils Gilman of Noema Magazine and Berggruen Institute with Anirudh Suri on The Great Tech Game Podcast

In this episode of The Great Tech Game, Anirudh Suri, Author and Host of The Great Tech Game Podcast, sits down with Nils Gilman, Deputy Editor of NOEMA Magazine, Editor-in-Chief of Berggruen Press and Executive Vice President of the Berggruen Institute, to unpack how history can help us make sense of today's contest over technology, sovereignty and global governance.This conversation spans a wide range of topics: from whether we are fighting a new Cold War for control and influence over the Global South to why China built its own tech champions while India opened its doors, to what Thailand and Malaysia's car industries teach us about "tech sovereignty" strategies, to how AI is breaking the way universities teach and test.We explore:- Are today's tech giants the new East India Company?- Is technology pushing nations toward economic convergence or divergence?- China kept foreign tech out. India let it in. Who got it right?- Can smaller countries like Vietnam really build their own AI stack?- Is "tech sovereignty" just autarky by another name?- What is "weaponized interdependence," and why are countries pulling back from globalization?- Can we govern planetary problems like climate change, pandemics and open-weight AI models?- How should universities and careers change in the age of AI?About the Guest:Nils Gilman is Deputy Editor of NOEMA Magazine, Editor-in-Chief of Berggruen Press and Executive Vice President of the Berggruen Institute. A historian by training, he is the co-author of Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crisis, and the author of Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America and Deviant Globalization: Black Market Economy in the 21st Century.About Anirudh Suri, Host of The Great Tech Game Podcast:Anirudh Suri is a non-resident scholar with Carnegie India, where his research and writing focus on technology, artificial intelligence and geopolitics. He is the author of The Great Tech Game: Shaping Geopolitics and the Destinies of Nations, and host of The Great Tech Game Podcast. He is also the Managing Partner at India Internet Fund, a US and India based technology-focused venture capital fund.The Great Tech Game by Anirudh Suri - https://amzn.eu/d/1Su38MyFollow Anirudh here:X (formerly Twitter): https://x.com/anirudhsuriLinkedIn: / anirudhsuri Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Facebook: / anirudhsuri.in Website: https://anirudhsuri.com/#thegreattechgame #tgtgpodcast #noema #berggrueninstitute #noemamagazine #berggruen #geopolitics #AI #artificialintelligence #globalaffairs #techpolicy #sovereignAI #techsovereignty #indiaAI #china #globalgovernance #education #postAIuniversity #anirudhsuri #nilsgilman