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Americans and Chinese have had a schizophrenic relationship over the past several centuries. Periods of admiration and friendship have oscillated with times of paranoia and enmity. Today we are gripped with a fear of China with echoes of the 1950s and 1960s. Why? Is it fear of China’s capacities? Or is it fear that it is we, the United States, who have fallen behind? Our discussion will draw on new Harvard Business School cases—from semiconductors, to electric vehicles, to AI, and beyond—that show a China building an educational and technological ecosystem that is not simply following global standards but setting them. […]