The U.S. continues to have enormous advantages in many critical technology sectors, and China’s system is plenty capable of self-inflicted wounds.
In his first press conference as president last month, President Biden said that his administration’s approach to China was not confrontation but “steep competition.”
And for all the challenges the U.S. faces in dealing with a country that is now an economic superpower, and increasingly confident — so much so that at a meeting in Alaska a few weeks ago, Yang Jiechi could use America’s own racial tensions to criticize an American delegation led by Secretary of State Antony Blinken
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For much of the past two decades, Europe's luxury market has counted on the ferocious appetite of Chinese consumers to bolster its bottom line. But foreign luxury brands are facing a reckoning in China. Not only is China’s economy entering a more uncertain phase, giving consumers pause, but homegrown designers and labels are also gaining ground. The questions now are which European brands can still rely on China, and how China's domestic designers can capture a share of the pie.
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