The US is moving away from a laissez-faire version of capitalism and toward a state-directed form.
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Bringing chip manufacturing back to America is a national security and economic priority, but a shortage of skilled workers threatens to derail the effort.
Entering office in the thick of the pandemic, Joe Biden faced science-related challenges on Day 1.
In an era of transformation, manufacturing still matters.
The incentives to bring manufacturing back to the US will affect productivity, but in ways that might be surprising.
In 2014, Chinese researchers published more papers than any other country for the first time. In 2019, China overtook the U.S. as the No. 1 publisher of the most influential papers.
Historians will pinpoint Biden’s decision on 7 October 2022 as the moment at which US and Chinese technology decoupling became inevitable.
Semiconductor chips are electronic devices that store and process information. Today they can contain billions of microscopic switches on a chip smaller than a fingernail.
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