Hi, I'm Ravi Agrawal, Foreign Policy's editor-in-chief. This is FP Live.

Welcome to the show. It's fair to say that U.S.-China relations aren't what they used to be.

Their attentions in several aren't, and the most significant of those seems to be technology.

A few years ago, Washington moved to keep companies such as Huawei out of U.S. infrastructure

for fear of Beijing's ability to spy.

Today, the issue isn't just about preventing spying, but containing China's very ability to access high-end computing.

Last year's Chips and Science Act was designed to cut off Beijing's access to the most advanced

semiconductors. I've really come to believe that to understand U.S.-China competition, whether it's

tech or anything else, you first need to understand China

itself. And there is no one better to read, watch, and listen to than Dan Wong. Dan's an analyst

at Gavicle Dragonomics and a visiting scholar at Yale University, and every year he publishes an annual

letter of reflections. These letters are part journalism, part philosophy,

part analysis, but most of all, it's essential reading to try and understand the immense changes

that China is undergoing in front of our eyes. We've linked his letters in the show notes.

So how will competition between China and the United States on technology play out?

Who will win? Why? As always, FP subscribers get to send in questions that frame these discussions.

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if you go to foreign policy.com slash live. For now, let's dive in. Dan, thanks for joining us.

Thank you very much for the invitation, Ravi. So I'd like to start a few years back to give our audience some context.

You've been living in China since 2017, and this is at a time when the Trump administration

comes to power.

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