What Americans Don’t Understand About China
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/opinion/china-keyu-jin.html
Can the U.S. See the Truth About China?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/27/magazine/keyu-jin-interview.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/opinion/china-keyu-jin.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/27/magazine/keyu-jin-interview.html
What Are America and China Fighting About, Anyway?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/14/opinion/china-america-relationship.html
Tom Friedman notes:
The role of trust in international relations and commerce took one more great leap for another reason: As more and more products and services became digitized and electrified, the microchips that powered everything became the new oil. What crude oil was to powering 19th- and 20th-century economies, microchips are for powering 21st-century economies.
So today, the country or countries that can make the fastest, most powerful and most energy efficient microchips can make the biggest A.I. computers and dominate in economics and military affairs.
But here’s the rub: Because the physics of making advanced logic chips has become so complex — a human hair is about 90,000 nanometers thick and the world’s best mass producer of advanced chips in the world is now making 3-nanometer transistors — no one country or company can own the whole supply chain. You need the best from everywhere, and that supply chain is so tightly intertwined that each company has to trust the others intimately.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/14/opinion/china-america-relationship.html
Tom Friedman notes:
The role of trust in international relations and commerce took one more great leap for another reason: As more and more products and services became digitized and electrified, the microchips that powered everything became the new oil. What crude oil was to powering 19th- and 20th-century economies, microchips are for powering 21st-century economies.
So today, the country or countries that can make the fastest, most powerful and most energy efficient microchips can make the biggest A.I. computers and dominate in economics and military affairs.
But here’s the rub: Because the physics of making advanced logic chips has become so complex — a human hair is about 90,000 nanometers thick and the world’s best mass producer of advanced chips in the world is now making 3-nanometer transistors — no one country or company can own the whole supply chain. You need the best from everywhere, and that supply chain is so tightly intertwined that each company has to trust the others intimately.
Graham Allison: “American politics is driving towards a provocation that China could not avoid”
https://www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-interview/2023/04/graham-allison-interview-american-politics-is-driving-towards-provocation-china
As the American political scientist Graham Allison first noted in 2012, throughout history when an emerging power has threatened to displace an existing great power this has more often than not led to war, even when neither side sought it. Allison led a research project into “Thucydides’s Trap” at Harvard University that investigated 16 such cases over the previous five centuries, starting with the rise of Spain challenging Portugal in the late-15th century Atlantic. Twelve of these cases led to war.
https://www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-interview/2023/04/graham-allison-interview-american-politics-is-driving-towards-provocation-china
As the American political scientist Graham Allison first noted in 2012, throughout history when an emerging power has threatened to displace an existing great power this has more often than not led to war, even when neither side sought it. Allison led a research project into “Thucydides’s Trap” at Harvard University that investigated 16 such cases over the previous five centuries, starting with the rise of Spain challenging Portugal in the late-15th century Atlantic. Twelve of these cases led to war.
