RIETI Open BBL Webinar

AI Supply Chains: Geopolitical implications

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The global semiconductor industry faces a historic realignment driven by AI and intensifying geopolitical rivalries. This session explores lessons from the chip industry’s history to navigate today’s "chip war" Topics will include supply chain vulnerabilities, the shifting landscape of industrial policy, and the strategic importance of AI.

Information

  • Time and Date: 12:15-13:15, Thursday, April 2, 2026 (JST)
  • Venue: Online
  • Language: English
  • Admission: Free
  • Host: Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)
  • Contact: Ms. BABA, Conference Section
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Speakers

Speaker:
  • Chris MILLER (Professor of International History, Fletcher School, Tufts University / Author)
    Chris Miller is Professor of International History, where his research focuses on technology, geopolitics, economics, international affairs, and Russia.
    He is author of Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology, a geopolitical history of the computer chip.
    He is the author of three other books on Russia, including Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia; We Shall Be Masters: Russia's Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin; and The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR. He has previously served as the Associate Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale, a lecturer at the New Economic School in Moscow, a visiting researcher at the Carnegie Moscow Center, a research associate at the Brookings Institution, and as a fellow at the German Marshall Fund's Transatlantic Academy. He received his PhD and MA from Yale University and his BA in history from Harvard University.
Commentator & Moderator:
  • NAMBU Tomoshige (Director, IT Industry Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI)