Innovations and technologies

A Sputnik Moment For The U.S. As China Forges Ahead In Tech Innovation

An impactful report by the Council on Foreign Relations underscores that the U.S. risks losing its worldwide innovation leadership to China, unless the U.S responds urgently and comprehensively over the next five years.

The report argues that the U.S. needs to put a national security innovation strategy in place to make sure that America maintains its predominant power position in emerging technologies such as AI and data science, battery storage, semiconductors, genomics and synthetic biology, fifth-generation cellular networks (5G), quantum information systems, and robotics.

These are many of the same emerging sectors that China has designated in its state-led blueprint "Made in China 2025" to close the gap in technology and build its national companies into globally competitive tech champions.