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A New (Maybe Pointless) Front in the US–China Economic War

The Biden administration wants to block any gain China may receive from Washington’s EV push, which itself seems to face trouble.
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A New (Maybe Pointless) Front in the US–China Economic War
A motorist riding past new electric vehicles parked in a parking lot under a viaduct in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, on May 22, 2017. STR/AFP via Getty Images
Milton Ezrati
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When Joe Biden and Xi Jinping met in San Francisco a few weeks back, they stressed cooperation and a dialing back of the hostility between the United States and China. It seems clear now that all the happy talk was just that—talk.

Milton Ezrati
Milton Ezrati
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Milton Ezrati is a contributing editor at The National Interest, an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Human Capital at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), and chief economist for Vested, a New York-based communications firm. Before joining Vested, he served as chief market strategist and economist for Lord, Abbett & Co. He also writes frequently for City Journal and blogs regularly for Forbes. His latest book is "Thirty Tomorrows: The Next Three Decades of Globalization, Demographics, and How We Will Live."
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