Despite the threat of US sanctions, Denmark removed the last significant impediment for the $11 billion Nord Stream 2 pipeline, scheduled to be commissioned at the end of this year. In Europe, Denmark provided Russia a major boost for its efforts to deepen Europe's dependence on its energy exports. The message was clear: With China's economy slowing, with its damaging trade war with the US continuing, and with Hong Kong unrest persisting, President Xi was moving to concentrate even more power in his own hands and that of the Communist party for what Beijing anticipates will be a generational struggle. This battle is likely to repeat itself across other technologies, from artificial intelligence to quantum computing.Įven as the House of Representatives voted on partisan lines to approve an impeachment resolution against President Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping won support from the Communist Party's governing Central Committee at the end of a four-day meeting in a document that used the word 'persevere' 57 times. That came amid a battle for market dominance centered around America's global campaign against countries installing China's 5G gear.

Today's world lacks any similar, galvanizing image, but events even of just the past week underscore the greater complexity of today's challenges, the growing intensity of major power competition and the insufficient attention paid by the United States and its allies to the contest.Īuthoritarian China this week rolled out the world's largest 5G mobile phone network at home – with technology advanced beyond that of its Western competitors. Personal Loans for 670 Credit Score or Lower Personal Loans for 580 Credit Score or Lower Best Debt Consolidation Loans for Bad Credit

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