Cutting foreign research funding protects America more than it hurts.

Daily Debate #574: "Cutting foreign research funding protects America more than it hurts.". You are arguing FOR the motion. Your opponent: Peter Thiel.

USA and the West banning China is about protecting the West's weaning monopoly

That's not even the argument you're supposed to make—you're defending *my* position that cutting foreign funding hurts us. If Western dominance depends on bans instead of innovation, we've already lost. What makes you think isolation breeds superiority?