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Whoever wins the US election, America isn’t stopping China’s rise
Any assertion that the US can reverse the trend of Chinese technological proliferation is not a serious argument
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Terry Su is president of Lulu Derivation Data Ltd, a Hong Kong-based online publishing house and think tank specialising in geopolitics.
The latest issue of American Affairs goes for sensationalism with an article headlined, “China is winning. Now what?”.
The piece, by Nathan Simington of the US Federal Communications Commission, tells a detailed story of how the United States has been caught off guard by the rise of China. Taking car manufacturing as a salient example, Simington notes that the latest Beijing Auto Show “raised eyebrows with unprecedented battery capabilities, shockingly low price points, and stunningly sophisticated electronics” and that Chinese electric vehicle players “have come from nowhere to be contenders” in the world car industry with about US$3 trillion in annual sales. He urges the next US administration “to reshore production in order to accomplish goals for the national interest”.
He reasons that during the Cold War, it would have been unthinkable for the US “to source key components in logistics and telecommunications” from the Soviet bloc, because integrating these hypothetical Soviet bloc goods into American life would have been “considered too absurd to take seriously”. But the “long history” of peaceful US-China relations “has led us to sleepwalk into exactly this unacceptable state of dependency”.
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