China is also well aware of its dependence on imported oil and is acting in surprisingly farsighted ways. It now spends more on solar, wind, and battery technology than the United States does. Research by the investment bank Lazard Freres shows that of the top 10 companies (by market capitalization) in these three fields, four are Chinese. (Only three are American.) It is also making a massive investment in higher education.

“For the last decade, as China’s economy kept growing at unprecedented rates, most Western analysts kept discussing when it would crash,” says Zachary Karabell, the author of a smart new book, Superfusion, on the Sino-U.S. economy. “Now with China surging ahead through this crisis, all they can discuss is, when will China stall? It’s as if they see the facts, but they can’t quite make sense of them.” China’s strange mixture of state intervention, markets, dictatorship, and efficiency is puzzling. But it’s time to stop hoping for China’s failure and start understanding and adapting to its success.
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