Arms Race vs. Relay Race: What Does Innovation Hold for China?

China has become a global manufacturing superpower, and U.S. election-year rhetoric presupposes that China's economic might knows no boundaries, and that it poses a threat to America. But doubts persist about the nation's ability to ever become an innovation superpower. Will China succeed at fostering creative incubators on par with Silicon Valley and America's great research universities? And, contrary to the zero-sum nature of political rhetoric, should Americans root for China's innovators? Featuring Yasheng Huang, Professor of International Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Adam Segal, Senior Fellow for China Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Denis Simon, Vice Provost for International Strategic Initiatives, Arizona State University; Yifei Sun, Associate Professor of Geography, California State University, Northridge; Steve LeVine, Washington Correspondent, Quartz magazine, Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow, New America Foundation.