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Technological Progress in Chinese Political Culture: An Intellectual Genealogy - American Affairs Journal

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The long-standing neglect of American technological strength stems from the fact that neither technological innovation nor industrial capacity have preoccupied America’s political culture for some time. This presents a significant hurdle as this coalition seeks to affect enduring changes in policy. Fortunately, history offers instructive models for overcoming such obstacles. The challenge before America’s techno-industrialists today resembles that confronted by generations of Chinese reformers as they reckoned with how far their country had fallen behind the West in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...

Spring 2025 / Volume IX, Number 1 Where there is no vision, the people perish. —Proverbs 29:18 C hina’s rise has put America’s vanishing technological edge and decrepit industrial base in sharp focus. As the Chinese Communist Party relentlessly pursues technological breakthroughs and industrial dominance, a faction of elites in the United States has begun to coalesce around the objective of reversing America’s relative decline. Bringing together trade hawks, defense technologists, and policy experts working on topics from immigration to permitting reform, this new coalition fears that without

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