Anja Manuel, a former diplomat, is a director of the Aspen Security Forum and co-founder and principal of the strategic consulting firm, Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC, with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley and former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Manuel, a former State Department official, writes extensively about Asia and China’s rise as a technology power. She is the author of This Brave New World: India, China and the United States, and multiple articles and reports on the technology competition with China. She is a graduate of Stanford and Harvard Law School. What follows is a lightly edited interview.
Anja ManuelIllustration by Kate Copeland
Q: For the past few years, we’ve been hearing a lot about the great power competition between the U.S. and China. What’s that all about when it comes to technology?
A: If you look at empires across history, the country with the best technology tends to
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