Blinken urges investment at home to compete with China

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the US needed to invest more at home to compete with rivals led by China.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, seen speaking on August 2, 2021, has called for more investment at home

Blinken toured an engineering laboratory at the University of Maryland on the outskirts of Washington where noisy 3D printers churned out prototypes for new products. Blinken cited a World Economic Forum study that the United States ranks 13th in infrastructure and said that China was spending three times as much and also investing more in research and development.

 

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