Is China Competing With the United States?

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Technology would seem to me like an area in which we are competing with China. We know that there's real worries and we've seen a response to those worries, including sanctions. But it also required taking measures such as the October 7th restrictions on semiconductor exports. And that reflects a real change in how we have approached this competition.

There’s rare bipartisan consensus in Washington: China is a threat to be countered. Cornell professor Jessica Chen Weiss says the American approach could lock both countries into an escalatory spiral.

This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King.

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