The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) recently released a report asserting China’s dominance in “critical technologies.” The report claimed that much of China’s progress has come from elaborate high-level design and long-term policy planning. It also claimed that Western democracies are losing out in global technological competition and urged them to invest more in research and form closer collaborations to curb China’s dominant positions in those technologies.
Before action is taken, it is essential to make sense of China’s rise in critical technologies and separate fact from fiction.
