Trump’s ‘golden age’ push hands top science honours to big tech. Will it work?

Trump’s ‘golden age’ push hands top science honours to big tech. Will it work?

The White House’s bid for a US “golden age” of science should put China on alert, Chinese analysts have warned, but they remain sceptical as to whether President Donald Trump’s alliance with Silicon Valley billionaires can pull it off.This comes as Trump, in another arguably unconventional move, handed the country’s highest science and engineering awards to top American tech bosses.Joining him in receiving the award at the “Science: A New Golden Age Summit” in Washington on Thursday were leading chipmaking chiefs Jensen Huang of Nvidia and Lisa Su of Advanced Micro Devices, as well as Google co-founder Sergey Brin.

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