China baut die Zukunft

Eric Schmidt and Selina Xu: “After a months-long trade war between China and the United States, Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are scheduled to meet [today] in Korea. Both countries seem to be angling for a truce; over the weekend, they announced a ‘framework’ for a possible agreement.

“The negotiations offer an occasion to stop to consider how China went from technological backwater to superpower in less than half a lifetime, and an opportunity for the United States to learn from that success. U.S. companies can work to regain hardware-manufacturing expertise, absorb knowledge and talent from some of China’s best companies, and shift their approach toward AI, encouraging more practical applications and open-source innovation. The United States must accept that we can be better while not relinquishing our strengths.

“If America focuses only on undermining its rival, it risks stagnating, and China might end up offering a more attractive vision of the future to the rest of the world than the United States can. What’s at stake is America’s ability to keep innovating and leading in the industries of the future.”

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