"In the Cold War era, enhancing America's national security involved fleets of bombers, nuclear throw-weights and overseas bases. Today, America's long-term security is more dependent on reinforcing its industrial base, making sure its supply chains for critical goods are at home, stepping up research and development for competitive advantage, moving ahead on emerging technologies and protecting the nation's infrastructure from cyberattack.
Trade agreements with China are important; more important is being sure America enters trade negotiations in a position of strength.
Nowhere is this thinking more obvious than in the way Mr. Biden's national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, is building his National Security Council staff. "I've really set out to first build up a substantial focus on the intersection of economicsand national security," says Mr. Sullivan.
In addition to hiring Mr. Singh, he is building a unit to focus on America's competitive position in emerging technologies, including 5G wireless networks, artificial intelligence and biotechnology. It is being run by Tarun Chhabra, who had been at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology.
Take the issue of critical supply chains. One of the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic has been to reveal how deeply the U.S. is dependent on foreign manufacturing for critical supplies. When a pandemic comes from China, yet the U.S. also is dependent on China for face masks, protective medical gear and pharmaceuticals needed to combat that same pandemic -- well, that is a revelation of a vulnerable national underbelly.
Thus has dependence on overseas supply chains been revealed to be not just a security issue, but an area of security weakness. And if that's true in medical supplies, it's true elsewhere.
As a result, Mr. Biden is preparing to issue an executive order on shoring up vital supply chains, including in semiconductors, critical minerals, medical supplies and battery technologies. That step will direct government power and policy toward building up domestic capacity in those areas; that can happen through direct government investment, tax incentives for private investment and removal of regulatory barriers.
More broadly, the administration is in no rush to re-enter negotiations on new free-trade deals because it would like some time first to pass through Congress its broader economic plan, which it envisions will provide some government help to basic manufacturing industries. The idea is to show that the U.S. is committed to building up its manufacturing muscle, allowing trade negotiators to deal from a position of greater strength.
This approach won't be called "industrial policy," because that term has become synonymous with government overreach in picking winners and losers in the private sector and making inefficient intrusions in free markets in doing so. But in reality, there is a growing sentiment among liberals and conservatives alike that the government should be more proactive in helping preserve America's manufacturing base." [1]
The basis of our understanding of security, Lithuanians, is hopelessly outdated, based on Cold War ideas. Nausėda, Landsbergiai and Saldžiūnas unhindered push into the public space in Lithuania the fantasies of a nuclear (my God...) war with Russia. Our security in Lithuania is therefore based on expensive, but morally obsolete and rusty, Boxers (machines that are used to transport soldiers) fools conscripts, even more foolish generals of Šveikas' time, and spread around by corruption golden spoons. Enough of the circus for which we pay a billion euros a year.
Do you want security for Lithuania? Go to Germany, learn to work with quantum computers, artificial intelligence, electric cars, biotechnology, vaccines.
1. U.S. News --- CAPITAL JOURNAL: Biden's Economic, Foreign Policy Converge
Seib, Gerald F. Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition; New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]16 Feb 2021: A.4.
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