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Use digital diplomacy to keep networks open, secure, interoperable, and rights-respecting while helping partners build durable local capacity.
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The specific delta between this position and the current mainstream approaches of both major parties.
Republican foreign-policy rhetoric has become more sovereignty-first and China-competition focused, with strengths on supply-chain risk and hard security but a risk of treating connectedness as dependence. Democratic rhetoric is usually stronger on alliances, human rights, development, and open internet values, reflected in bipartisan efforts like the Global Internet Freedom Act (H.R. 8309, 118th Congress, introduced by Reps. María Elvira Salazar, R-FL, and Sara Jacobs, D-CA), which would require the State Department to report on internet shutdowns and censorship abroad. Even a bill both parties can agree on stops at reporting and accountability; it does not reach the standards-body, undersea-cable, and DPI-safeguard work this issue treats as the operational core. The Innovation Party's delta is to put that operational layer in the foreground: standards, cables, DPI safeguards, AI interoperability, digital skills, privacy, and partner capacity.
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