'China has moved up the value chain. Its companies aren’t supplying basic components anymore. They are global brands in their own right, and western officials are looking on anxiously as Chinese batteries, cars and drones become increasingly sophisticated. Now, western policymakers are asking the same question their Chinese counterparts were asking years ago: We’d like to beat them. Should we be joining them?'
#china #internationalTrade #geopolitics #politicalEconomy
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