Alastair Crooke: Former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum.The Two Undersides to Geo-Politics
The prize that America truly seeks is to seize for itself over the coming decades, all global standards in leading-edge technology, and to deny them to China.
China’s intent now is not simply to refine and improve on existing technology, but to leapfrog existing knowledge into a new tech realm (such as by discovering and using new materials that overcome present limits to microprocessor evolution).
