For years, decades even, the West questioned China’s ability to innovate and to invent truly original technologies. China was only capable of copying Western technology or be reliant on fat government subsidies, the critics claimed. #🇨🇳 ChinA.I. 🤖🧠🦾🤖
But this dismissive attitude has seen a clear shift in recent years as China has established itself as a global leader in a range of cutting-edge technologies, from electric vehicles to batteries. And now with AI – a technology the US increasingly intends to “win” in – it faces a competitor that is not just competitive but also fundamentally subversive in its eyes.
“The biggest risk to #Artificial Intelligence is China getting ahead of us,” US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at an event last week (https://www.scmp.com/news..), underscoring the magnitude of the threat the Trump administration sees in China.
