Sizing up the competition: asymmetries in the US-China tech contest
June 27, 2024The US and China are locked in a technology competition. Less well understood is how each side assesses the contours of and strategies for winning that contest. Yet any serious game plan must contend with the opponent’s view of the competitive landscape, or risk being outflanked and outplayed.
Competing for the Frontier: Benchmarking the US-China Technology Competition
June 27, 2024The US and China are locked in a technology competition. Less well understood is how each side assesses the contours of that contest, and the strategies for winning it. Yet any serious game plan must contend with the opponent’s view of the competitive landscape, or risk being outflanked and outplayed. In our new research report, we assess the current US-China competitive balance in the technology domain, and benchmark the two countries’ standing in the field.
The Week That’s Done: December 18
December 18, 2022New strains hit Europe’s energy systems while the US fights to invest in next generation solutions, and struggles at the upstream. Plus, a breakthrough in nuclear fusion, hope that inflation might be easing (kind of), Japan’s new defense strategy, and more.
The China Nexus: Thirty Years in and around the Chinese Communist Party’s Tyranny
November 17, 2022The challenges facing US industrial dynamism extend are in part a product of the Chinese Communist Party’s market distortions: Rebuilding domestic industry will demand equal protection as well as promotion. This excerpt from Benedict Rogers’s The China Nexus details a new US resolve to protect.
A US Policy Roadmap for a Reshored Reality
November 9, 2022Reshoring, especially from China, is essential to American resilience. Here, Harry Moser proposes a framework and set of policy measures to level the industrial playing field. These could bring the total reshored US jobs to 5 million, a 40 percent increase in manufacturing, and full American resilience.
The US and China Are in a Space Race: Who Is Counting Laps?
November 3, 2022As rhetoric around the US-China space race picks up, what does the competitive balance actually look like? The two country’s relative satellite capacity offers one angle in – and one where overall numbers tell only part of the story.
Hard Problems: The US Tech Sector Is Ignoring the China Threat
September 16, 2022It is time for the US tech sector to recognize the near and present national security threat China poses; to get on the right side of history. For the US to prevail against a centralized, Communist system, its tech sector will have to lead, proactively. Markets will reward this. The country needs it.
