Meaning

1 senses
  1. (US)The perceived superiority in the 21st century of the amount of affordable electricity available in China in comparison with such capacity in the United States, a gap that began to matter strategically in the mid-2020s as AI adoption in commerce and defense was accelerating.

Origin

Modeled after missile gap and bomber gap, which held analogous mindshare in the 1950s.

Modeled after missile gap and bomber gap, which held analogous mindshare in the 1950s.

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