Biden’s infrastructure and clean energy plans want to ‘outcompete’ China — but they also rely on it.
President Joe Biden delivers remarks in March. Credit: Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz
As the Biden administration attempts to steer its massive ‘American Jobs’ plan through Congress, it’s pushing one key selling point: That it will be central to U.S. efforts to “out-compete China.”
But experts warn that if the U.S. is to achieve the plan’s goals of rebuilding America’s infrastructure — all while achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 and creating millions of jobs — it will have little choice but to rely heavily on its biggest economic rival.
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