Xin Wang is an associate professor of China Studies and serves as the director of Asian Studies at Baylor University in Texas, US. His research focuses on social class, cultural change, and education in China.
Washington’s concerns about the impact of China’s excess production on American firms are clearly more political than economic. It’s the US market’s high prices that hinder widespread EV adoption, but American sentiment on competing economies is what counts in an election year.
Amid US-China tensions, as intercultural exchanges and academic exchanges drop off, constructive dialogue between the two peoples is needed more than ever.