Absolute dominance: what China needs to know about the tech elite's role in Trump 2.0
As the two powers had their latest round of trade talks in Stockholm, another prominent expert in China also called on Beijing to look beyond the present tariff tensions with the United States to understand Washington's broader strategic agenda.
The inclusion of Silicon Valley tech elites as a new force on US President
Donald Trump 's team had been a major difference in the American leader's second term compared with his first, said Ni Feng, director of the Institute of American Studies under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
'The interaction between the tech right force and the
Maga movement is likely to be a very meaningful point for us to observe the second Trump administration's domestic and foreign policies,' Ni told a webinar about the Make America Great Again wave on Tuesday.
While Maga was nostalgic, the tech right was trying to 'shape the future of the US', Ni said at the event, which was organised by the National Academy of Development and Strategy at Renmin University in Beijing.
Ni described the American tech right not only as a powerful capital bloc but also as an entity that had its 'unique philosophy' about where the US should be headed – so-called tech accelerationism.
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