The Economist.

The Economist.

Hello and welcome to the intelligence from the economist.

I'm Ora Okenbei.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

The age-old battle between developers and preservationists is on show at Seaport Tower in New York.

We look at the Curious Committee that decides what gets approved and what

doesn't and ask if the city can build its future without destroying its past.

And our obituaries editor pays tribute to Anne Inest Dag, the woman who really loved giraffes. But first. For years now, America and China have been locked in a tech war, a battle for supremacy in everything from farmer to AI.

This conflict started under Donald Trump, for whom China was something of an obsession.

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China, China, China, and it continued when Joe Biden entered the White House.

I made sure that we have the most advanced technologies that we've developed and invented and they can't be sent to China.

Both presidents have subsidized cutting-edge American industry and put up trade barriers,

all while China forged ahead.

China is now a world leader in EVs, batteries and solar panels, and it has plans to

dominate chips too.

Conflict over these industries, green energy and semiconductors, is already reshaping relationships and supply chains around the world,

and the costs are mounting.

America and China have been grappling over the control of advanced technologies for about five or six years now.

Hal Hodson is our America's editor.

And it looks as though pretty much no matter who goes into the White House in January next year,

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