Sound industrial and geopolitically-minded policy is needed to shore up US competitiveness in the face of the challenges posed by China’s economy – not tariffs.

As policy, economic, and geopolitical challenges mount, foreign firms are finding it harder to make money in the China market than a decade ago.

Cloud seeding is increasingly looked to as a mitigation tool for the worst effects of the climate crisis. But as rain becomes scarcer, the technique risks fomenting conflict between states competing for the same clouds.

Four policy areas are coalescing in the platforms of both US presidential candidates: housing, immigration, food prices, and tariffs. Yet none of these plans can address the fundamental weaknesses of the US economy.  

Increased capital intensity is the cure to what ails the US economy, and Eastern Europe can help provide it.

The realities of global trade and domestic deindustrialization cannot be glossed over with non-binding initiatives like the IPEF; either the United States adapts and brings allies on board, or it falls behind.

While China and Russia make moves to shore up their positions in the geopolitical contest to come, the United States and Brussels opt for a comforting state of denial.

A Western reproduction of Belt and Road is not desirable, let alone feasible. Rather, if the West is to make up ground in the Global South, it will start with win-win cooperation that takes the interests of non-aligned partners into account.

The CHIPS Act buys time for the US semiconductor industry. But if Washington and other Western allies desire a lasting victory, they will have to beat Beijing at its own game.