The race for tech supremacy: The U.S. vs. China

This is fresh air. I am Terry Gross. When it comes to the production of drones, electric vehicles, lithium ion batteries, solar cells. China is ahead of the US. Beijing might also be benefiting from the war in Iran and from President Donald Trump's tariffs.

So does this mean the era of America's global leadership? Is over. My guest Evan Osnos addresses these and other issues in his latest article in the New Yorker titled The Future. Made in China. He's a staff writer at the magazine, where he's written extensively about China, as well as American politics and the tech world.

Before that he was the Beijing bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune and was part of teams that won the Pulitzer Prize in two thousand one and two thousand eight. Osnos is also a host of the New Yorker podcast, The Political Scene. His first book Age of Ambition Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China was won the twenty fourteen National Book Award for Nonfiction, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book is The Haves and Have Yots Dispatches on the Ultra Rich.

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