The US Senate, with 68 votes in favor and 32 against, approved a bill that aims to increase the country’s resources to compete with technology that comes from China. If the bill also meets with the support of the House of Representatives, and is subsequently signed by President Biden, 190 billion dollars will be invested to enhance the research and development of technologies in the United States, including the production of semiconductors and chips used by car manufacturers for their cars, also given the recent and growing scarcity of these elements on the global market. China – according to Reuters news agency – said it was “indignant”: “We strongly oppose the idea that the United States sees us as an imaginary enemy” declared the spokesman for the Chinese foreign minister. The speech of the Majority Leader of the US Senate, Chuck Schumer, which you can listen to in the video on this page, is emblematic: “All over the world, authoritarian governments believe that contentious democracies like ours cannot unite around national priorities. They believe that democracy. itself is a relic of the past and that by surpassing us with emerging technologies, they, many of them autocracies, will be able to reshape the world in their own image. Well, let me tell you something. I think they are wrong. ”
edited by Pier Luigi Pisa