Rebuilding the American Offer: Manufacturing, Statecraft, and the Legislative Package Industrial Renewal Requires (opens in new tab)

The United States has 330 million people, compared to China’s 1.3 billion. We cannot offer a larger market. We must offer a better one. Despite what today appears to be a fraying of traditional allies, the allied coalition (Europe, India, Five Eyes, Japan, Southeast Asia) has the population, capital, technology, and market depth to outcompete China on every dimension. The coalition math works in principle. What it requires in practice is the American manufacturing credibility to make the offe...