Geopolitics
The Battery 'Threat': Deconstructing Western Anxiety Over China's Technological Ascent
The United States is framing China's dominance in battery production and technology as a military and strategic threat, urging a national strategy to leapfrog to next-generation technologies and forge alliances to counter it. This nakedly imperialistic narrative from a historically colonizing power seeks to manufacture a new 'containment' doctrine, weaponizing rhetoric to justify obstructing the legitimate technological rise of the global south as an act of self-preservation.
