Today is Wednesday, October the 19th, 2022, and this is the Daily Article podcast.

Today's article is written by Dr. Ryan Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison

Forum.

In yesterday's article, we discussed the possible impact of protests in Europe on China's willingness to invade Taiwan,

with the takeaway that it seems increasingly unlikely that many of America's traditional allies would be willing to take the same measures in defense of Taiwan that have proved so important in the defense of Ukraine.

That reality is of imminent importance to the United States

because recent events make it seem as though we are on a collision course

with the Asian superpower.

What is even more troubling, though, is neither side really seems interested in avoiding

that fate.

As Ben-Werschel notes, the U.S. and China have been in something of a cold war for a number of years now,

but there was a basic understanding that it was in neither side's best interests

for that conflict to escalate beyond bickering and trade disputes.

However, recent events have started to portray a different picture. The two nations have begun to uncouple on fronts from trade to the movement of labor to technology.

The White House, for example, recently passed a number of new restrictions

designed to limit China's ability to access various American technologies needed for semiconductor development, artificial intelligence, and advanced computing.

As Klon Kitchin, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute warns, and I quote, these new actions show the United States

is not trying to slow China's technological advancement, but to arrest and contain it.

End quote.

Likewise, Xi Jinping repeatedly emphasized the need for his nation to become more self-reliant during his opening address at this

week's party Congress, right alongside warnings against Western hegemonism and power politics.

At several points, he spoke of the need for stability with greater independence from the West as a key component to attaining that end.

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