The Military-Industrial Battle Between the U.S. and China

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  Hey, What's News listeners.

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  It's Sunday, June 1st.

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  I'm Alex Osola for The Wall Street Journal.

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  This is What's News Sunday,

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  the show where we tackle the big questions about the biggest stories in the news by reaching out to our colleagues across the newsroom to help explain what's happening in our world.

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  On today's show...

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  Over the past decade or so,

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  China has ramped up its investment in some strategic industries.

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  The country has come to dominate the manufacturing of products from basic chemicals to advanced machinery,

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  most of which would be vital in wartime.

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  Today,

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  we get into how China's economy fueled that buildup and how U.S. manufacturing is losing the production battle.

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  Modern warfare is, in a sense, a contest of industrial might.

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  After all, that's how the U.S. won World War II,

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  by making more of everything from bullets to food than its enemies.

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  But today, the U.S. lacks that kind of manufacturing heft.

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  China, on the other hand, has got it in droves.

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  For years, China's leader Xi Jinping poured money into developing strategic sectors,

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  from shipbuilding to mining and processing critical minerals.

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  Faced with a war, China would be well-positioned.

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