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The Strategic Competition Act of 2021, 1 approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 21, 2021, signals continued bipartisan consensus to orient U.S. policy towards aggressive action to counter China. Given the broad bipartisan support in Washington to address China's malign activities, the bill will likely pass the Senate and House of Representatives. This bill is a useful barometer of congressional sentiment towards China and may guide the Biden administration's future China-related actions. The bill recognizes that U.S. ability to effectively compete with China requires do...

Biden’s Domestic Policy Is His China Policy Biden made it clear that central to his rationale for making domestic investments is the long-term aim to “outcompete” China. President Joe Biden’s speech before a joint session of Congress last April made it clear that he views competition with China and “rescue and renewal” at home as inextricably interlinked. In other words, Biden’s domestic policy is his China policy. In his speech, Biden focused on his two major proposals for “once-in-a-generation investments in our nation’s future”: the American Jobs Plan and the American F...

Can the Biden Agenda Fix Middle America’s Deepest Problem? One key economic goal is to create the virtuous cycles of innovation and jobs that already occur in many coastal cities. A farm near Allen, Neb., last year. In much of the middle of the country, population loss and economic decline have fed on each other, a cycle the Biden administration hopes to break. Credit...Brian Lehmann for The New York Times May 5, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Last week, the Census Bureau said that the last decade’s population growth was the slowest in generations. Also last week, President Biden addressed C...

.  Last week, the Census Bureau said that the last decade’s population growth was the slowest in generations. Also last week, President Joe Biden addressed Congress and laid out a wide-ranging, multi-trillion dollar economic agenda. The two developments are tightly related. For much of the United States, a demographic crisis and an economic crisis are two sides of the same coin. In many cities and regions, a shrinking population reduces the tax base, leading to underinvestment and deterioration of the physical environment and public services, causing even more jobs and people to go elsewhe...

U.S. lawmakers intensify bipartisan efforts to counter China FILE PHOTO: Chinese and U.S. flags flutter outside the building of an American company in Beijing, China January 21, 2021. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang April 22, 2021 By Patricia Zengerle and Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A bipartisan U.S. congressional push to counteract China picked up steam on Wednesday as a Senate committee overwhelmingly backed a bill pressing Beijing on human rights and economic competition, while other lawmakers introduced a measure seeking billions for technology research. The Senate Foreign Relations Commi...