Beating the Americans at Their Own Game

An Offset Strategy with Chinese Characteristics

By Robert O. Work and Greg Grant

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During the Cold War, the U.S. military relied on technological superiority to “offset” the Soviet Union’s advantages in time, space, and force size. Our military-technical edge allowed the U.S. Joint Force to adopt force postures and operational concepts that largely compensated for the Soviet military’s numerical conventional advantage without needing to match it man-for-man or tank-for-tank. After the Cold War ended, this same military-technical advantage provided the U.S. military a decisive conventional overmatch against regional adversaries for over two decades.

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Working Group on Science and Technology in U.S.-China Relations

Is China or the U.S. ahead in artificial intelligence? What is the best way to counter security threats in 5G technology? How do we best maintain American leadership positions in fundamental research and biotechnology?

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A new policy report on "Meeting the China Challenge: A New American Strategy for Technology Competition" is the culmination of over a full year’s deliberation and study by the bipartisan Working Group on Science and Technology in U.S.-China Relations. It sets forth broad policy objectives as well as specific recommendations for the new U.S. administration in four domains of science and technology: fundamental research, 5G digital communications, artificial intelligence and biotechnology.

The Working Group is organized by the 21st Century China Center at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy and the Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations. It operates under the auspices of the Task Force on U.S.-China Policy. It comprises twenty-nine leading experts on China and science and technology issues from the academia, industry and think tanks in the U.S. and is chaired by Dean Peter Cowhey, a leading technology policy expert.

Report Launch & Press Conference

Meeting the China Challenge: A New American Strategy for Technology Competition

Nov. 16, 2020

Questions about a new strategy for U.S.-China competition in science and technology were addressed in the press conference on Nov. 16 as we launched a policy report on "Meeting the China Challenge: A New American Strategy for Technology Competition."

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