Marc Andreessen-

'Our Boston Dynamics SPOT robot cost $50,000. China has a similar product that looks and acts similar and is even hooked up to an LLM and it only costs $1,500.

This is all upstream from all the military applications because it's all the same supply chain. We have to confront this. Having this fragmented approach where we hate tech and then somehow think we can develop a competitive response to tech is not coherent.

We have no whole of government strategy on technology or China. Zero.

It turns out the President matters.'

The nation state and the quality of its government is a crucial factor in the wealth of nations.

Chinas politburo are mostly trained engineers who know if they do not deliver growth they will face removal- and not a quiet retirement but probable shame if not death.

Chinas state led mixed economy is delivering superior growth to the wests corrupt rentseeking parasitic crony capitalism.