The headline article by Raghu Jaitley ("Global Policy Watch: Back to Arms Race") is indeed worrying for India. But it is not all gloom and doom for a couple of reasons.
Biden has tried to make a lot of policy announcements when he was the lame duck president. And Trump being Trump may be even less inclined to follow his predecessor's announcments in the lame duck phase.
It is also curious that Biden didn't frame the Russian oil policy all this while. Why wait until he was in lame duck phase? What was the hurry or urgency? After all, when he was President, he tried to weigh the pros and cons of pissing off China and India, global consequences of raising oil prices etc. But on his way out, he decides "To hell with the world and the complications"! Everything about Biden after Trump won seems like the wild flailing of a very bitter man (authorizing Ukraine to strike inside Russia, and these 2 policies Raghu described) who operated on the idea that he will keep making decision "until his last day in power".
Might be a stupid question, but if open-weight models are exempt then why’s there so much consternation about these controls? Hypothetically, if someone in India wanted to make a frontier model they should still be able to, right? It just has to be open-weight.
The headline article by Raghu Jaitley ("Global Policy Watch: Back to Arms Race") is indeed worrying for India. But it is not all gloom and doom for a couple of reasons.
Biden has tried to make a lot of policy announcements when he was the lame duck president. And Trump being Trump may be even less inclined to follow his predecessor's announcments in the lame duck phase.
It is also curious that Biden didn't frame the Russian oil policy all this while. Why wait until he was in lame duck phase? What was the hurry or urgency? After all, when he was President, he tried to weigh the pros and cons of pissing off China and India, global consequences of raising oil prices etc. But on his way out, he decides "To hell with the world and the complications"! Everything about Biden after Trump won seems like the wild flailing of a very bitter man (authorizing Ukraine to strike inside Russia, and these 2 policies Raghu described) who operated on the idea that he will keep making decision "until his last day in power".
Might be a stupid question, but if open-weight models are exempt then why’s there so much consternation about these controls? Hypothetically, if someone in India wanted to make a frontier model they should still be able to, right? It just has to be open-weight.