1、It is now widely agreed that the contest for leadership in frontier scientific and technological progress is one of the foremost elementsif not the centerpieceof the U.S.-China rivalry.The Chinese Communist Party leadership appears to believe that science and technology offer the primary engines of
2、development and innovation that will realize its goals of national rejuvenation;thus,the party is investing massively across many areas of this domain.1 After years of taking a largely hands-off approach to this contest,at least from a government standpoint,the United States now appreciates the sign
3、ificance of the contest for leadership in science and technology as foundational to the economic and national security aspects of the rivalry and has begun responding to the Chinese effort with invest-ments,policies,and export controls of its own.2 This competition is vital not only in terms of rela
4、tive bilateral power between the United States and China but also in terms of the echo effects on global tech-nology networks.As in the telecommunications,computer,and software age,the nation whose innovations become the default global standard is set to acquire MICHAEL J.MAZARRA Networked Leapfrog