US can’t compete with China’s technology, so it wages economic war

Why is the United States waging economic war on China? Ben Norton discusses how China became the world’s industrial superpower and a leader in important technologies, why the US is unable to compete, and the clash between Western neoliberal capitalism and Chinese socialism. Check out our related video: China is now the ’world’s sole manufacturing superpower’. How did it develop so fast?: Topics 0:00 Bipartisan US economic war 2:19 China is world’s #1 manufacturer 4:28 Clash of systems 6:29 Elon Musk laughed at Chinese competitors. Now they’re beating him. 9:27 TikTok: Why US wants to ban it 10:56 EU threatens tariffs on China 11:20 West’s hypocrisy on climate change 12:25 Solar panels: China installs more than rest of world combined 13:46 Clean energy is top driver of China’s growth 14:56 China leads world in green transition 16:57 Neoliberal West can’t outcompete China’s stat