The story of the US-China race, amplified by Silicon Valley, has been overstated. And the specific narrative of a race towards decisive strategic advantage is a “dangerous fiction,” as my co-author Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh writes — dangerous not only because it distorts reality, but also because it carries the potential to serve as a self-fulfilling prophecy. “The world should not be lost on the basis of a fiction.”
They’re terrified ordinary Americans will realize how much more their interests are aligned with ordinary Chinese than with American oligarchs.
Who does the US government think it’s fooling when it claims to be the “free world”? I have no idea who would genuinely fall for the narrative of a freedom-loving United States after the last few decades.
Race ? China won
Which one?
Yes.
