Both sides now openly acknowledge that the US and China no longer see trade and technology as economic issues alone. They see them increasingly as national security weapons.
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We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine, but we have not invented a sufficient control of the machine; and worst of all, we have not invented any adequate philosophy of the machine.
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