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US Judge Is Helping Save America’s Open Technology Fund

Twenty-eight cents per taxpayer is well worth the boost to national security.
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US Judge Is Helping Save America’s Open Technology Fund
A computer displays a message from the Chinese "great firewall" on the proper use of the internet at an internet cafe in Beijing. Ng Han Guan/AP Photo
Anders Corr
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U.S. government support for the Open Technology Fund (OTF), which helps citizens in authoritarian countries such as China access the open internet, ended by executive order on March 14 but was restored on March 27.
Anders Corr
Anders Corr
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Anders Corr has a bachelor's/master's in political science from Yale University (2001) and a doctorate in government from Harvard University (2008). He is a principal at Corr Analytics Inc. and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, and has conducted extensive research in North America, Europe, and Asia. His latest books are “The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy, and Hegemony” (2021) and “Great Powers, Grand Strategies: the New Game in the South China Sea" (2018).
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