America has many advantages in this race \u2014 which is how it has managed to stay ahead, even as Beijing embarked on its long-term strategy to overtake it. But in the past six months, the Trump administration has systematically begun to dismantle many of them.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s take partnerships: The biggest advantage for the U.S. is that it has allies, while China has clients. Collectively, the U.S. and its allies can outcompete, outspend, out-innovate, out-trade, out-finance and out-attract others to its side. But Washington\u2019s allies in North America, Europe and Asia increasingly \u2014 and rightfully \u2014 fear that the current \u201cAmerica First\u201d policy is putting them last. They\u2019ve been told to defend themselves, to pay 15 percent or more in tariffs and, in the case of Canada and Denmark, to cede territory. As a result, they\u2019re turning toward each other and reducing their military, economic and political ties to Washington.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s not all. The Trump administration is also pursuing funding policies around universities and immigration that directly undercut America\u2019s ability to compete with China. For 80 years, federal research dollars funded scientific and technological breakthroughs like the internet, genetic sequencing, space exploration, vaccines, cancer cures and much more. The country\u2019s modern research universities led the way in spurring these innovations, drawing talent from across the globe to benefit from and contribute to its ecosystem of innovation.<\/p>\n
But Trump has now cut federal funding for basic research by a third<\/a>, blocked research grants to top universities for purely ideological reasons and tightened immigration for international students and scholars. One poll suggests that 75 percent of scientists in the U.S. today are looking to leave the country and work elsewhere<\/a>.<\/p>\n It\u2019s hard to underestimate the damage these policies are doing to U.S. competitiveness. To give just one example, many of the country\u2019s closest allies are now offering lucrative grants and research opportunities to entice the talent pool at the core of America\u2019s success as a global innovation machine.<\/p>\n This isn\u2019t just shooting yourself in the foot \u2014 it\u2019s shooting yourself in the head. And unless Washington rectifies the situation swiftly, it will find not just Beijing but other parts of the world passing it by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"America has many advantages in this race \u2014 which is how it has managed to stay ahead, even…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[1942,521,1395,1442,6215,10685,32,77074,18109,40,1302,2597,111629,2343,479,53,1201,49,978,659,1773],"class_list":{"0":"post-302774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-asia","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-competition","12":"tag-cooperation","13":"tag-critical-raw-materials","14":"tag-donald-trump","15":"tag-from-across-the-pond","16":"tag-higher-education","17":"tag-immigration","18":"tag-innovation","19":"tag-military","20":"tag-naval-vessels","21":"tag-research","22":"tag-tariffs","23":"tag-technology","24":"tag-trade","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa","28":"tag-xi-jinping"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114939848583975436","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}