Why US must assert industrial dominance in light of China-Europe ties

As President Donald Trump has argued, America’s economical information is our nationalist security, whether it’s reshoring jobs successful captious industries oregon promoting robust commerce to make the jobs and technologies that volition thrust the satellite system during this caller Golden Age and into the future. 

America is already the person successful AI, finance, healthcare, manufacturing, agriculture, vigor and much – but that presumption tin inactive beryllium threatened not conscionable by China, our top economical adversary, but besides by immoderate of our oldest allies successful the European Union.

As China seeks to weaken the U.S. and grow its planetary influence, it's eyeing the 27-nation EU arsenic a spouse against American industry. In captious sectors – car manufacturing, cleanable energy, technology, aerospace and defence – China is tightening its grip connected European markets. 

In captious sectors – car manufacturing, cleanable energy, technology, aerospace and defence – China is tightening its grip connected European markets. (Getty/iStock)

For years, China and the U.S. person been neck-and-neck arsenic the EU’s largest trading partner. But arsenic the EU is rushing to curb its reliance connected the U.S. for nationalist security, the EU-China economical ties are lone increasing stronger.

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China is present the world’s largest car-exporting state and that’s successful ample portion acknowledgment to the popularity of Chinese electrical vehicles (EVs) successful Europe. In fact, successful 2023 the fig of Chinese EVs exported to Europe outperformed American EV exports. Projections bespeak that the marketplace stock of Chinese brands successful Europe could emergence from 2.5% successful 2023 to astir 10% by 2034, adjacent contempt tariffs imposed by the European Commission.

Similarly, the EU’s extremity to beryllium the archetypal climate-neutral continent by 2050 is fueling a deeper dependence connected China. The EU remains heavy reliant connected China for earthy minerals to enactment star and upwind proviso chains. The European Commission precocious admitted that 75% of caller star modules installed successful Europe were imported from China.

China’s exertion ambitions are clear: surpass the U.S., infiltrate the industries of the aboriginal and endanger our nationalist information successful the process. Its curiously titled "Made successful China 2025" inaugural aims to presumption the state arsenic the planetary person successful precocious manufacturing, peculiarly successful AI, robotics, aerospace and cleanable energy. 

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China has already overtaken the U.S. successful patent applications. The authorities massively invests successful semiconductor accumulation and greenish tech to trim its reliance connected American exertion and power overmuch of the world’s proviso concatenation for artillery cells, star modules and upwind turbines. With billions pouring into probe and improvement and state-backed firms to vie with U.S. giants similar Google and Microsoft, China is straight challenging U.S. innovation and security.

China’s state-backed aerospace shaper is present readying to grow further into Western markets with deeper concern into European pitchy shaper Airbus and vie with America’s ascendant aerospace manufacture and its largest company, Boeing. 

Supporting American-made aerospace companies, which are prioritized to spouse with the U.S. authorities arsenic a builder and supplier of cutting-edge warfighting technologies, is captious for economical and nationalist security. American-made companies person an integrated proviso concatenation passim the state and Boeing specifically is simply a marketplace person astir the satellite arsenic 1 of America’s largest exporters. 

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Undermining American companies and prioritizing Chinese-backed companies doesn’t conscionable weaken American manufacture – it opens the doorway for adversaries similar China to overtake the marketplace and weaken America itself.

America stands astatine a crossroads. Biden-era regulations person already weakened flagship American companies, putting our planetary competitiveness astatine risk. If we let China to tighten its grip connected captious industries – whether done EV dominance successful Europe, power implicit greenish vigor proviso chains, oregon its continued propulsion for technological supremacy – we hazard ceding our economical aboriginal to a authorities that seeks to displace us. 

Boeing is simply a large example, contempt its challenges, for however prioritizing American-made companies implicit adversaries similar China and different nations that spouse with China is indispensable to some our economical and nationalist security. Without its success, Airbus and Chinese manufacturers volition predominate the aerospace and defence industries, leaving America vulnerable.

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Republican lawmakers indispensable basal down President Donald Trump’s America First docket to guarantee U.S. companies stay strong, competitory and susceptible of starring the world. This isn’t conscionable astir economics – it’s astir securing the aboriginal of America, protecting our nationalist information and ensuring that American innovation continues to thrust planetary progress. 

If we neglect to support our captious industries, we hazard handing implicit our aboriginal to those who would question to undermine america connected the planetary stage. To sphere America’s economical and nationalist security, we indispensable prioritize policies that empower American businesses, support innovation and guarantee we stay the world’s exertion superpower.

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