Opinion | This was one of the worst weeks for China on the world stage in a while. By lopezlinette.
Legendary American diplomat George Kennan — known for outlining the US policy of containing the USSR during the Cold War — used to say that the US people are always about 10 years behind its diplomats when it comes to seeing danger from abroad.he compared democracies to a giant prehistoric monster"with a body as long as this room and a brain the size of a pin" that needs to be directly confronted with a problem before it awakens from the"comfortable primeval mud.
Perhaps the US has learned something from Kennan. Consider the Senate's passage of a 2,400 page bill aimed at shoring up the US as an economic and technological superpower. The size and scope of the bill shows that our leaders are trying to meet a challenge before it's an emergency. The bill allocates $52 billion to building up the semiconductor industry in the US in order to decrease our dependence on semiconductors from China and Taiwan. The bill also funds major research, allocating $81 billion to the National Science Foundation from 2022 to fiscal 2026 and $120 billion into technologies like artificial intelligence and quantum computing.
In a time when the leaders of the richest country in the world are squabbling amongst themselves over whether or not to fund the building of roads and bridges, this bill is a heartening sight. The most important ways the US can counter China are by strengthening itself domestically and by preparing for the worst with its allies. If the giant prehistoric monster hasn't awakened, this week shows that it now at least has one eye open.
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