The Chinese century \u201cmay already have dawned, and when historians look back they may very well pinpoint the early months of President Trump\u2019s second term as the watershed moment when China pulled away and left the United States behind.\u201d China \u201calready leads global production in multiple industries \u2014 steel, aluminum, shipbuilding, batteries, solar power, electric vehicles, wind turbines, drones, 5G equipment, consumer electronics, active pharmaceutical ingredients and bullet trains.\u201d China is \u201claser-focused on winning the future.\u201d In contrast, \u201cMr. Trump is taking a wrecking ball to the pillars of American power and innovation. His tariffs are endangering U.S. companies\u2019 access to global markets and supply chains. He is slashing public research funding and gutting our universities, pushing talented researchers to consider leaving for other countries. He wants to roll back programs for technologies like clean energy and semiconductor manufacturing and is wiping out American soft power in large swaths of the globe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Chinese century \u201cmay already have dawned, and when historians look back they may very well pinpoint the early months of President Trump\u2019s second term as the watershed moment when China pulled away and left the United States behind.\u201d China \u201calready leads global production in multiple industries \u2014 steel, aluminum, shipbuilding, batteries, solar power, electric […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5503,3322,2648,12435,16575,865,3916,2046,7369,16574,2390,324,16572,494,16576,656,14821,16517,5666,1054,655,3160,5161,193,16573],"class_list":["post-12884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-5g","tag-aluminum","tag-batteries","tag-bullet-trains","tag-chinese-century","tag-clean-energy","tag-consumer-electronics","tag-drones","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-endangering","tag-global-markets","tag-innovation","tag-laser-focused","tag-manufacturing","tag-pharmaceutical-ingredients","tag-research","tag-semiconductor","tag-shipbuilding","tag-solar-power","tag-steel","tag-supply-chains","tag-tariffs","tag-trump","tag-wind-turbines","tag-wrecking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12886,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12884\/revisions\/12886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}