The US Senate’s decision to launch a massive technology research and semiconductor development program has, of course, a primary target: China.
In the struggle for technological supremacy, the United States is ready to invest - read: spending - in a way that the country has not seen for a long time.
This, too, is evidence that the American-Chinese system rivalry is being carried out in many fields, but especially in that of technology.
Those who fall behind here make themselves dependent, vulnerable and endanger future prosperity.
The current shortage of computer chips provides the technology warriors with additional arguments.
The thing is also so clear: The United States must modernize its economy and invest heavily in research and development.
President Biden's announcement that America will compete with China from a position of renewed strength is not just hot air.
The fact that a non-partisan majority has given the project the blessing shows once again that a comprehensive response to the rise of China can be based on a broad and resilient consensus. America is strengthening its competitiveness and is not thinking of following the Chinese script of the inevitable decline of the West. In the geo-economic dispute, a shovel is added.