Tak je bil naslov članka Kyla Chana izpred dveh dni v New York Timesu. Pravi preprosto to, da je KItajska prevzela globalno industrijsko in tehnološko dominacijo in da je ZDA pri tem ne morejo zaustaviti. Vsekakor pa ne s Trumpovimi politikami, ki so diametralno nasprotne od kitajskih. S carinami ne moreš zaustaviti države, za katero tvoj trg pomeni le 2.7 % njenega BDP in katere BDP raste po stopnji 5 % letno. Kitajske ne moreš zaustaviti tako, da poskušaš s carinami vrniti industrijo iz sredine 20. stoletja. Ne moreš zaustaviti Kitajske tako, da zmanjšuješ sredstva za izobraževanje, raziskave in razvoj in tako da ukineš ministrstvo za izobraževanje. Če nekdo zaradi hitrejše rasti produktivnosti raste 2 do 3-krat hitreje od tebe, je stvar zgolj matematike, v koliko letih bo večji od tebe. Kitajsko lahko “držiš pod kontrolo” le tako, da tečeš hitreje od nje. Da ustvarjaš razvoj in industrije prihodnosti hitreje od Kitajske. No, s carinami na izdelke iz 20. stoletja, z zmanjševanjem sredstev za razvoj in brez ciljne industrijske politike tega ne moreš doseči.
Zato se nam obeta grd boj ZDA, da ne bi prehitro padle v irelevantnost vsem na očeh.
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For years, theorists have posited the onset of a “Chinese century”: a world in which China finally harnesses its vast economic and technological potential to surpass the United States and reorient global power around a pole that runs through Beijing.
That century may already have dawned, and when historians look back they may very well pinpoint the early months of President Trump’s second term as the watershed moment when China pulled away and left the United States behind.
It doesn’t matter that Washington and Beijing have reached an inconclusive and temporary truce in Mr. Trump’s trade war. The U.S. president immediately claimed it as a win, but that only underlines the fundamental problem for the Trump administration and America: a shortsighted focus on inconsequential skirmishes as the larger war with China is being decisively lost.
Mr. Trump is taking a wrecking ball to the pillars of American power and innovation. His tariffs are endangering U.S. companies’ access to global markets and supply chains. He is slashing public research funding and gutting our universities, pushing talented researchers to consider leaving for other countries. He wants to roll back programs for technologies like clean energy and semiconductor manufacturing and is wiping out American soft power in large swaths of the globe.
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