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your credit. Terms and conditions apply. Hey, What's News listeners. It's Sunday, June 1st. I'm Alex

Osala for the Wall Street Journal. This is What's News Sunday, the show where we

tackle the big questions about the biggest stories in the news by reaching out to our colleagues

across the newsroom to help explain what's happening in our world. On today's show, over the past

decade or so, China has ramped up its investment in some strategic industries.

The country has come to dominate the manufacturing of products from basic chemicals to advanced

machinery, most of which would be vital in wartime.

Today we get into how China's economy fueled that buildup and how U.S. manufacturing is losing

the production battle.

Modern warfare is, in a sense, a contest of industrial might.

After all, that's how the U.S. won World War II by making more of everything from bullets

to food than its enemies.

But today, the U.S. lacks that kind of manufacturing heft. China, on the other hand, has got it in droves.

For years, China's leader Xi Jinping poured money into developing strategic sectors, from shipbuilding to mining and processing critical minerals.

Faced with a war, China would be well positioned. And with tensions rising between the U.S. and China,

the two countries' output is coming into focus as a front line in any conflict. Now, that's not to say

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