> ...then we have to win by being smarter, more efficient, and forward-leaning through agility, rapid prototyping and innovation. We have to be ahead and lead.

> ...then we have to win by being smarter, more efficient, and forward-leaning through agility, rapid prototyping and innovation. We have to be ahead and lead. We can’t afford to be behind. I ain't an American, but this strangely sounds like Cold War rethoric to me. Nobody has to "win" anything, especially not states. I am personally hoping for civilizational leaps, and more collaboration rather than competition. Examples of collaboration are free and open source software. And US people likely "lead" there along with European people (in the sense that most free software dev time is coming from those regions), but that's mostly due to the living standard making that possible. Btw, I am sure government policy in China is even worse than this, but I prefer to be ideological rather than practical — my take on Brexit was that unions like the EU are worth paying for as a civilizational step forward, and one should not look for pure monetary value gained from it.