It's basically and scaremongering piece fincanced by the MIC aimed at selling more arms the way I read it. I do hope that it demoralizes China-will-collapse-any-day-now libs though.
ASPI’s two-decade Critical Technology Tracker
Global and country findings
- China’s lead continues to grow
- China significantly strengthened its standing in the middle of the last decade
- The US is losing the strong historical advantage that it has built
- China has built up potential monopoly positions in scientific expertise and top performing institutions
- India accelerates: India now ranks in the top 5 countries for 45 of 64 technologies
- The UK ranks in the top 5 countries for 36 technologies—a decline from 44 technologies in last year’s results
- The European Union, as a whole, is a competitive technological player
- Germany is the top-performing European Union country
- South Korea’s performance shows that Japan has work to do
- Iran excels at defence-sensitive technologies
- Australia has improved in some technologies and slipped in others
- AUKUS—the trilateral security and technology partnership involving the US, the UK and Australia28—closes the gap in some Pillar 2–relevant technologies, but not al
Scientists familiar with China’s fusion facilities said that if it continues its current pace of spending and development, it will surpass the U.S. and Europe’s magnetic fusion capabilities in three or four years.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Plasma Physics in the eastern Chinese city of Hefei in 2018 broke ground on a nearly 100-acre magnetic fusion research and technology campus. The facility is expected to be completed next year but is already largely operational and focused on industrializing the technology.
Europe’s Response to China Shock 2.0: Hold China Closer -
June 23, 2024
European officials have largely been in favor of investments from Chinese battery makers such as CATL and from Chinese electric-vehicle manufacturers such as BYD in Hungary and Chery Automobile in Spain.
While Chinese purchases of existing European businesses have collapsed in recent years, in part because of growing European scrutiny, greenfield investment—i.e. newly created companies or plants—has risen rapidly, reaching 78% of all Chinese foreign direct investment in Europe last year, according to data compiled by the Mercator Institute for China Studies and Rhodium Group.
At the core of this strategy is a fear that Europe, and especially Germany, which relies much more on manufacturing than the U.S., could be hit by one of two nightmare scenarios: a global trade war, or a new flood of cheap Chinese imports.
European Union regulators this month signaled plans to impose relatively modest tariffs—the highest will be half the 100% recently announced by Pr
China Outspends the U.S. on Fusion in the Race for Energy’s Holy Grail -
July 7, 2024
China is outspending the U.S., completing a massive fusion technology campus and launching a national fusion consortium that includes some of its largest industrial companies.
Crews in China work in three shifts, essentially around the clock, to complete fusion projects. And the Asian superpower has **10 times as many Ph.D.sin fusion science and engineering as the U.S. **
JP Allain, who heads the Department of Energy’s Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, said China is spending around $1.5 billion a year on fusion, nearly twice the U.S. government’s fusion budget. What’s more, China appears to be following a program similar to the road map that hundreds of U.S. fusion scientists and engineers first published in 2020 in hopes of making commercial fusion energy.
“They’re building our long-range plan,” Allain said. “That’s very frustrating, as you can imagine.”
**Scientists familiar with China’s fusion facilities said that if it continues its