Assessing China's Strengths and Weaknesses

Xi Jinping’s plan to overtake America in AI 
https://www.economist.com/china/2025/05/25/xi-jinpings-plan-to-overtake-america-in-ai
China’s leaders believe they can outwit American cash and utopianism.

China’s Soft Spot in Trade War with Trump: Risk of Huge Job Loss
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/business/china-unemployment-jobs.html
A chronic housing slowdown and high youth unemployment rate have made China more vulnerable than it was in President Trump’s first term. 

Focus on the New Economy, Not the Old: Why China's Economic Slowdown Understates Gains
https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2025/02/focus-on-the-new-economy-not-the-old-why-chinas-economic.html
 
Beyond Tariffs: What the U.S. Can Learn from China's Industrial Playbook
https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2025/04/beyond-tariffs-what-the-us-can-learn-from-chinas-industrial.html

How America is losing its military supremacy to China
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/05/25/china-military-capability-missiles-peoples-liberation-army/
Beijing’s army boasts almost a million more troops than the US and has the largest navy in the world.

America Let Its Military-Industrial Might Wither. China’s Is Booming.
https://www.wsj.com/world/america-let-its-military-industrial-might-wither-chinas-is-booming-7325f34b