Opinion

China already manufactures too much. Now it wants to make more.

Brian Deese, an Innovation Fellow at MIT, was director of the National Economic Council from 2021 to 2023.

As its economy stagnates, China is doubling down on a policy agenda that threatens to destabilize global economic growth and the energy transition. In response, the United States should send a clear message that the world will not absorb the costs of these distortionary policies, and should work with our allies toward a more durable framework for global growth.