Trade policy should only be one aspect of the U.S. government’s response to China’s technological rise, a senior Pentagon research official said this week, calling on the U.S. to focus more on investing in research and development if it hopes to maintain a strategic advantage over China in high-tech areas. Michael Brown, the director of the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit, on Tuesday said the U.S. must change how it spends research and development funding if it wants to stay ahead...
