But your reading comprehension doesn't.
China has thin technological advantages and is competitive in a narrow number of market segments, but has faster catch-up than most everyone else, which over enough time, turn into pushing the technological frontier in a growing number of fields (fast catch-up growth is of course, uncertain).
He didn't say that China has very few leading fields and that it was the norm for the US to be leading. He said that of the times that China has played catch up, it has been successful AND it is currently playing catch up in all the areas where it is not leading. Is the US player catch up? No, it's playing being caught up to in some areas and being left behind in others. It is losing its edge where it still has one and being left further back where it does not. Compared to that, playing catch up is worth celebrating.
This site shows China lacks market share in exports in the large high tech sectors so uhh…
So uhhh the new guy needs some time cus he's on his way up. What, you wanna end the game and call score just when the other team is rallying?
Yes, it all points to the fact that China’s tech lead is a very thin one that is centered around a select handful of sectors.
That China's tech has an overall thin lead, maybe, I mean, we're just getting warmed up. A select handful? Where's that written? It wouldn't happen to be the most important technologies in contention against your imaginary unnamble "thousands" of areas in which America supposedly leads, right? We went through the most important ones and the majority sees Chinese leadership while the entirety shows China outrunning the US.
The TikTok panel was an Obama judge (Srinivasan), a Trump judge (Rao), and a Reagan judge (Ginsburg). The DC Circuit is 7 Democrats and 4 Republicans but somehow, TikTok drew a 2 GOP panel, lol.
In other words, bye bye TikTok! enjoy December 6 when the DC Circuit denies your request for a preliminary injunction.
The U.S. can turn all trade & investment from China into a political hot potato that corporate legal counsel and state/local economic development agencies from coast to coast will not touch with a 30 feet pole and still have >2.X% growth and <3% inflation and China can do nothing about it as the U.S. simply vaporizes all of China’s FDI projects.
Heard that shit before; can you get it done this time, finally? Are your politicians finally able to come together to ban an app? We'll see. We've been banning your crap from Google to Yahoo to Facebook for decades. We've been waiting for you to learn how to finally get one in like Usain Bolt eating a sandwich at the finish line waiting for South Park Jimmy to finally cross so we can all celebrate the incredible courage of a handicapped child. Can you... actually get there this time?
What’s more - China’s response is to deepen relations with any U.S. business that will listen;
This happen in a different world? LOLOL
ex., Tesla in Shanghai, pushing on them in any glimmer of hope to improve relations, if anything, just revealing their weakness.
The only place in the world where Tesla's on the ropes, is China. The only country's EV capability that Elon Musk fears is China's. The weakness is America losing its edge in EV.
This is all quite easy to reconcile
Yeah, everything's easy if you use your imagination rather than actual facts.
1) China is leading in a select few number of fields, causing collective outrage in DC
Those being the most important ones and the outrage being completely useless in every way to reverse it, but ironically caused China to accelerate to take the lead in many other fields, all critical ones.
2) China has fast technological catch-up compared to most other countries but accumulated U.S. advantages are large and durable and in many cases, self-reinforcing
Faster compared to every other country combined because that's essentially what it's up against in the West. American advantage in some niche areas may fall later but when China targets one, it's dated, as is seen in the track records.
3) and related to 1), American politics has always had a paranoid style -
Puahahahaha You're the second person who claimed this and very stupidly at that. If America was paranoid, no trade war or tech war could have happened. It is not paranoia to react to another taking your leads and crushing them in several areas only to find that your reaction only causes more to fall; that is the definition of waking up at the controls to see all indicators red and sirens blaring! Paranoid would have been to buy out or sanction out Chinese companies and technological endeavors in their infancy 2 decades ago. If the US attacked Huawei when it was putting together its first cellphones, that would have been paranoid. If the US made sure ASML could never sell to China, that would have been paranoid. Attacking Huawei when it became the leader in 5G and China's lithography sector after it was years away from EUV is slamming your 18-wheeler's breaks at 60 miles an hour 10 feet before a collision. If you still don't react, you might have a driver who died peacefully while cruising.
4) foreign affairs are risk-free entertainment for the bored house guys of Fairfax county after they get bored playing risk - the large size and relative economic and geographic isolation of the U.S. means foreign affairs don’t matter to any domestic constituency that can deliver votes or money (outside of course, Cuban-Americans in the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area)
Combined with below:
That would last as long as the time it would take for the California Department of Insurance, New York Department of Financial Services and Texas Department of Insurance to jointly put out a statement saying they will not permit any of their regulated auto insurers to cover a BYD car (effectively clobbering BYD’s market since they would simultaneously be banned from selling to ~30% of the U.S. overnight and be uninsurable in 47 other states - more or less every insurer is regulated by the NYS DFS since all insurers have bond trading desks). Behind the border/non-tariff barriers to trade can just as easily be applied as a prohibitive tariff to ban trade
I'm with you on this one. It's America's right to deny high tech imports to its local population. As you said, foreign investment spurs competition; so don't bring the heat if you have no chance of surviving the burn. America is free to ban world-beating Chinese exports just like Cuba or North Korea can ban all things Western. And so what? They're living just fine. So will you be as well, just not at the technological edge.
