How China’s Role in Technology Development Affects the United States and the World, With Sam Olsen

China views technology and the tech companies that produce it as
strategic assets to be leveraged in a global race for
geopolitical advantage. That’s why it doesn’t treat its domestic
champions as players in a free market—the point is to make sure
they win at the expense of Western competitors. Rob and Jackie
sat down with entrepreneur and strategist Sam Olsen, author of
What China Wants, to discuss the implications of China’s
technological development. 


Mentioned:


Sam Olsen, What China Wants, (Substack, 2022). 

Stefan Link, Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet
Russia, and the Contest over the Industrial Order, (Princeton
University Press, 2020). 



Related:


Rob Atkinson, “China’s ‘State Capitalism’ Is Not Capitalism”
(ITIF, August 2021).

Rob Atkinson, “The Case for Legislation to Out-Compete China”
(ITIF, March 2021).

Rob Atkinson, “The U.S. Needs to Copy China’s Tech Strategy
to Remain the Top Economy in the World” (ITIF, November 2019).