Competitiveness

State and Local Governments Need to Stop Subsidizing Chinese Companies
If Congress wants to advance the U.S. economy in its toe-to-toe competition with China, then lawmakers need to pass legislation prohibiting cities, states, and the federal government from providing any funding to Chinese companies investing in the United States.
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For a menu of actionable ideas for policymakers related to competitiveness, see ITIF’s “Tech Policy To-Do List.”

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April 21, 2022
State and Local Governments Need to Stop Subsidizing Chinese Companies
If Congress wants to advance the U.S. economy in its toe-to-toe competition with China, then lawmakers need to pass legislation prohibiting cities, states, and the federal government from providing any funding to Chinese companies investing in the United States.
April 21, 2022
Korea Should Participate in Proposed Indo-Pacific Economic Framework
The United States and Korea could align collaborative international development aid/assistance, development finance support, and export credit initiatives to encourage nations to select digital technologies, solutions, and platforms from vendors in like-minded nations.
April 14, 2022
An Industrial Policy Won’t Hurt You
It is important for conservatives to recognize that China poses a critical threat to America’s future and that we need a strong, technologically vibrant economy to respond. This in turn requires a national industrial policy.
April 14, 2022
Testimony to the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission on Innovation, Technology, and Intellectual Property
There’s a battle being fought now for the soul of the global trade and economic system; it’s imperative that like-minded nations collaborate to emerge victorious in it.
April 11, 2022
Why America Should Compete to Win in Advanced Industries
Until a significant share of America’s leaders believes the United States is in economic competition with other nations—and that it has a right and duty to win that competition—generating the political will for a national advanced-industry strategy will be difficult.
April 4, 2022
Podcast: Investing in American Dynamism, With Ben Horowitz and Katherine Boyle
Venture capitalists know what it feels like when a company is firing on all cylinders. But it’s been a while since the whole country had that feeling of dynamism—so why not focus on companies that help the cause by supporting the national interest, solving critical problems, and doing fundamentally new things?
April 1, 2022
Fact of the Week: Nearly 93 Percent of DRAM Chips Are Produced in South Korea, China, and Taiwan
America’s lack of global manufacturing competitiveness in this technology is not just a matter of comparative advantage, but is rather evidence of a risky overdependence that has come to shock U.S. supply chains.
March 31, 2022
Breaking Up Big Tech Would Help Xi Jinping
The Biden administration and its “Neo-Brandeisian” supporters in Congress are seeking to break up large tech companies, but national-security-minded advisers warn it would strengthen America’s biggest ad­versary, China. They're right, just as an earlier generation of national security advisers was right to warn the Eisenhower administration against breaking up AT&T.
March 25, 2022
Comments to the US Commerce Department on Incentives, Infrastructure, and R&D for a Strong Semiconductor Industry
ITIF applauds both the Biden administration and U.S. Congress for articulating and advancing the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (“CHIPS”) for America Act, which has been passed out of the Senate and House in largely similar form in their respective U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA) and America COMEPTES Act.
March 24, 2022
Can Allied Cooperation Against Russian Aggression Continue and Broaden?
When national governments take steps to help their own economies, they can end up helping other economies, too. Sometimes that result is a win-win. But all too often the result is beneficial for a nation’s direct competitors in the fierce race for global advantage in key, innovation-based industries.

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